"Absolute justification of UC's policy" of note:
From the introduction to a 10th-grade biology textbook published by the Bob Jones University Press: "Those who do not believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant word of God ... this book is not for them." And "if the conclusions contradict the word of God, the conclusions are wrong, no matter how many scientific facts may appear to back them."
This beats the hell out of Lysenkoism...even the Bush version of it.
God and admission requirements
Patt Morrison
December 15, 2005
I WAS MAYBE 8 years old the day I got kicked out of Sunday school. We were learning about Moses miraculously parting the Red Sea, when I piped up and asked, "Was it really and truly a miracle? What if it was just low tide? Did anyone ever think of that? Huh?"
It was my first and only expulsion, and it stayed with me, along with the compound unfairness that it happened before the milk and cookies. Why wouldn't the teacher answer? Religion, I realized, wasn't about question marks, it was about periods — about faith, not about proof. As the scary bumper sticker out there warns me, "God said it, I believe it, that settles it."
I relived my 8-year-old moment when I read recently about the case of an association of Christian private schools versus the University of California. Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta, in Riverside County, dedicated to giving its students "a biblical worldview," says the UC system is anti-Christian because it has ruled that several of the school's proposed new classes are not up to college-prep snuff.
...UC isn't telling Calvary or any other private school — from Islamic madrasas to Phillips Andover Academy — what to teach. They can teach anything they want. They can teach that the Earth is as flat as a deep-dish pizza and created in almost as short a time. They can teach that the world was made by singing spirits or a mole, as other faiths do. But getting an "A" in it doesn't mean you're entitled to get into UC — or just as important, that you're prepared to.
