Higgaion<\/a> and Playing Chess With Pigeons<\/a> have detailed responses to claims made in the movie Expelled<\/em>. Apparently the \u201cmoral absolutist\u201d mentioned in the last post<\/a> was here on campus promoting Expelled<\/em>. That explains why he treated my claim that we have faculty on campus who are conservative Christians of an inerrantist variety with such skepticism. But the truth is that I am familiar with institutions that require one to sign an affirmation of inerrancy or a denial of evolution, and if one doesn\u2019t one will not be hired; I have yet to encounter an institution where one asks one to sign a denial of inerrancy in order to be hired. Of course, scientists will prefer applications from those doing credible science, and scholars will prefer applications from those doing credible<\/a> scholarship. But I can\u2019t imagine a serious but conservative scholar being excluded automatically from consideration here at Butler. Indeed, I know that this is not the case. And so the truth is that, were it not for the protection of religious concerns with special privileges allowing them to sidestep matters of intellectual freedom and discrimination, none of the fundamentalist groups would be supporting \u201cacademic freedom\u201d bills of any sort.<\/p>\n John Pieret<\/a> has a nice post on why the label \u201cDarwinism\u201d continues to be used. I\u2019m a Newtonist too, by the way. Bob Cornwall<\/a> features an atheist \u201cwith whom we might talk\u201d. DaveScot<\/a> calls for fairness in tarring people with the Hitler<\/a> brush.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
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