Tuesday, November 22, 2005
At the University of Kansas creationism and intelligent design will be taught in a university class next summer. This would be alarming, but for the fact the class will teach the two as mythology, not science.
Paul Mirecki, chairman of KU’s religious studies department says he plans to teach the course “Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies” next semester.”
He’s doing so because he says the KU faculty has “had enough.”
Remember Kansas is the home of six state board of education commissioners who think intelligent design is science and who have mandated that it be taught in the state’s schools as an alternative to Darwin and the Theory of Evolution.
It is likely that students will line up to take the class which will be capped at 120 students, to explore intelligent design as a modern American mythology. (full story)
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