I Wonder Who Designed the Logo…

For frig’s sake, just because something has ‘Christian’ on it does not mean people have to react with astonishment when it turns out that, OMG, they have something to do with evolution or have nothing to do with creationism.

A little research would have gone a long way here. The university in question is affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) who are a mainline protestant denomination with no official interpretation of the bible. Look on their sites and you see lots on issues of social justice but little to nothing on creationism. Telling people how to read the bible doesn’t seem to be their thing.

Texas Christian University in Fort Worth is a serious university where students get a very good education. So is Southern Methodist in Dallas, and not too far south is Baylor Baptist University.

It digs at the heartstrings of people such as William Dembski that schools sponsored by church funds actually research and teach real science, but the Northern Texas has some very good Universities (even if they do obsess a bit too much about football.)

Justin!
Say hi to my old stomping grounds for me. I went to junior college at St. Gregory’s Abbey just a stone’s throw down the road from OBU and I took Microbiology from Prof. Hurley at OBU. I went on to get an ivy league degree and a law degree and still that Microbiology class was the hardest I have ever had. Good science being taught there, and thoroughly.

There are loads of Xians who have no problem reconciling evolution with an ongoing reinterpretation of Christianity. They’re considered edgy and all that, but they’re real.

Edgy? Who considers it edgy? I never considered it edgy. I thought it was absolutely normal, until I met the internet.

Justin, please give us a report when you return. It sounds like it will be fascinating. Email to Hemant, and I think he’ll publish it as a post.

Edgy? Who considers it edgy? I never considered it edgy. I thought it was absolutely normal, until I met the internet.

Just a hair of background: I’m in Tulsa, OK, and was, in fact raised in a deeply fundamentalist version of the religion. I was unclear. Fundies often think the evolution-accepting Xians are edgy as in on the edge of damnation. Non-fundie Xians often think the Fundies are silly as in silly in the head.

Just to echo another respondent:
TCU is a fairly secular school. They do have a Divinity school (as do other secular schools, e.g., Duke), which tends to be fairly “liberal.” It should come as no surprise to a Christian (fundy or otherwise) or an atheist that TCU has classes that teach evolution.

ATL-Apostate

I’m a TCU alumn and I can say, at least while I went there, that TCU was very involved in the sciences and did not bring up Creationism in the classroom. Definitely a secular school that just happens to be funded by the Disciples of Christ. They were open enough that they even allowed our ridiculously named club, Pagans for Hedonism and Darwinism, to operate for awhile (they eventually made us change the name because it was an acronym for PhD, which we did intentionally.)