Learning Creationism At Liberty U

[Emit]

Don't know whether to laugh or cry at this one, but it leaves me shaking my head either way...

AFP profiles the "science" classes at Liberty University, to which Christian students are flocking to learn how to defend Creationism: (Video at link)

They plan to become doctors, researchers and professors, but these students from Liberty University, an evangelical school, also believe God created the Earth in a week, some 6,000 years ago.

Each year, a group of biology students at the Christian university based in Lynchburg, Virginia, travels to the Natural History Museum in Washington to learn about a theory they dismiss as incorrect -- Darwin's theory of evolution.

The young "creationists" examined a model of the Morganucodon rat, believed to be the first and common ancestor of mammals that appeared some 210 million years ago.

Lauren Dunn, 19, a second-year biology student, was unimpressed.

"210 million years, that's arbitrary. They put that time to make up for what they don't know," she said.

Nathan Hubbard, a 20-year-old from Michigan and a first-year biology major who plans to become a doctor, regarded the model with suspicion.

"There is no scientific, biological genetic way that this, this rat, could become you," he said, seemingly scandalized by the proposition.

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/learning-creationism-liberty-u

[piratefish08]

1. Here is a great book about Liberty U - written by a student who went 'undercover' for a semester

The Unlikely Disciple - A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
by Kevin Roose

http://www.amazon.com/Unlikely-Disciple-Semester-Americas-University/dp/044617842X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268319893&sr=8-1

[belpejic]

2. Liberty shouldn't be re-accredited.

Jeez, can you imagine if one of these idiots was your doctor?