Posted by Bob on 7/31/2007, 9:10 am, in reply to "Re: Science and (or is it vs?) Religion" If it did not, then his competence to do good science should be recognized, at least prima facie. There should not be a "dissidents need not apply" policy. Otherwise the hearing is a charade. Instead of only asking whether he believes in Darwinism, ALL students should be asked, what is the evidence for it, what weaknesses are there in it? If the student can competently answer the question, he can be trusted to do what scientists do--- follow the evidence wherever it leads. Instead, the system summarily forbids dissent, while admitting any student who "believes as he's told to" by the establishment. That's not good.
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I had already stated early on that if a student's basis for rejecting Darwinism is ideological, or otherwise wrongheaded, then not only would he be ineligible for post-grad work, but that that should have surfaced in his under-grad coursework.
