Politics: Science Should Win

The New York Times is reporting on a professor who won't give a recommendation to a student who cannot "truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific answer" to the question of how the human species originated. Basically, this professor is enforcing a theory of evolution litmus test.

Well, good for him.

Stand up, Dr. Michael L. Dini, because you're the next contestant on "You're Damn Right." On our show, we cast the bright light of actual, scientific information across the vast wasteland of closeminded religious dogma and hysterical intellectual blindness. Today on our program, a professor from Texas (like you couldn't have guessed that) is sued by some student who didn't even take his class because the student was offended by the instructor's refusal to recommend to medical schools students who insist on wallowing in 17th century beliefs about God plucking humankind from the dust of the cosmos on the sixth day or whatever.

As a friend wrote to me (and this article doesn't make crystal clear), I hope Texas Tech is backing this professor with the full force of the university's legal team.