Intelligent Design Theory: Science or Religion?

Intellectual Diversity or Intellectual Insult?

Eorl edited that which Foxfyre wrote:

No, it is more than faith. It is knowledge obtained through experience, but it is an experience that cannot be taught to another--each person has to experience it to know it. If I was the only one professing such an experience, it could neither be verified nor falsified using any scientific principle, but it could reasonably be suspect. But when you draw in that 'cloud of witnesses', millions and millions of them, who share the same kind of experience, then a conclusion can be reasonably drawn that magic is at least a popular theory of the origins and evolution of the universe.

Again, acknowledging that millions of people believe in magic based on their individual experiences is still not a reasoned argument for teaching magic as science. And I will continue to strongly object to it being taught as science.

It is, however, a reasoned argument for allowing magic and Darwin to co-exist peacefully without getting our knickers in a twist about it. It also is a reasoned argument for accepting that magic and Darwin do not need to cancel each other out or be in conflict.

Well have to have a Department of Flying Spaghetti Monsterology, if this goes through.
They seem to equate diversity with stupidity in this legislation.

Terrible Eorl. A shite demonstration.

But obviously, if certain scientific knowledge or activity is clearly immoral or destructive, then efforts should be made to control or regulate how or if it is used.

Does this also mean all MO colleges would lose federal funds?

Protecting viewpoints that the Bible is inerrant seems to violate the establishment clause...

They seem to equate diversity with stupidity in this legislation.

cicerone imposter wrote:

Does this also mean all MO colleges would lose federal funds?

Good point, c.i. I hope someone in the Missouri Senate brings up this point in debate. The Missouri House of Representatives version states: "intellectual diversity concerns in the institution's guidelines on teaching and program development and such concerns shall include but not be limited to the protection of religious freedom including the viewpoint that the Bible is inerrant."

Protecting viewpoints that the Bible is inerrant seems to violate the establishment clause and may prevent federal funding to Missouri state schools. Furthermore, the establishment clause extends to state legislation by virtue of the fourteenth amendment.

So where does spendi go? is there even some application to all this IDism?

MISSOURI HOUSE BILL NO. 213
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 173, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 173.057, to read as follows:
1. The provisions of this section shall be known and cited as the "Emily Brooker Intellectual Diversity Act". As used in this section, "intellectual diversity" is defined as the foundation of a learning environment that exposes students to a variety of political, ideological, religious, and other perspectives, when such perspectives relate to the subject matter being taught or issues being discussed.
2. The coordinating board for higher education shall require each public institution to report annually to the general assembly detailing the steps the institution is taking to ensure intellectual diversity and the free exchange of ideas.
(1) The report required in this subsection shall address the specific measures taken by the institution to ensure and promote intellectual diversity and academic freedom. The report may include steps taken by the institution to:
(a) Conduct a study to assess the current state of intellectual diversity on its campus, including diversity-related criteria used in admissions, scholarship awards, and hiring which shall include racial and gender diversity;
(b) Incorporate intellectual diversity into institution statements, grievance procedures, which may include filing a complaint directly with the governing board, and activities on diversity;
(c) Encourage a balanced variety of campus-wide panels and speakers and annually publish the names of panelists and speakers;
(d) Establish clear campus policies that ensure that hecklers or threats of violence do not prevent speakers from speaking;
(e) Include intellectual diversity concerns in the institution's guidelines on teaching and program development and such concerns shall include but not be limited to the protection of religious freedom including the viewpoint that the Bible is inerrant;
(f) Include intellectual diversity issues in student course evaluations;
(g) Develop hiring, tenure, and promotion policies that protect individuals against viewpoint discrimination and track any reported grievances in that regard;
(h) Establish clear campus policies to ensure freedom of the press for students and report any incidents of student newspaper thefts or destruction;
(i) Establish clear campus policies to prohibit viewpoint discrimination in the distribution of student fee funds;
(j) Develop methods for disseminating best practices to ensure that conflicts between personal beliefs and classroom assignments that may contradict such beliefs can be resolved in a manner that achieves educational objectives without requiring a student to act against his or her conscience;
(k) Eliminate any speech codes that restrict the freedom of speech;
(l) Hold meetings periodically with students to determine if the students believe they are receiving a sound and respectful education; or
(m) Create an institutional ombudsman on intellectual diversity.
(2) The report shall be distributed to the members of the general assembly no later than December thirty-first of each year, beginning in 2008.
(3) The report shall be posted on each public higher education institution's web site.
3. Each public higher education institution shall ensure that students are notified that measures to promote intellectual diversity are in place and how to report alleged violations of policy. When any student asks how to pursue filing a grievance about an alleged violation of policy or expresses the belief to an instructor that his or her viewpoint has been discriminated against, the instructor shall inform the student of all the options available for resolving the student's grievance.

There is indeed and I dealt with it only a day or two ago but I presume it either escaped your notice

spendi

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There is indeed and I dealt with it only a day or two ago but I presume it either escaped your notice

Whenever your posts get over 2 paragraphs of wattle, I totally ignore them so, yeh, in effect, it escaped my notice.

Hey FM, you spelled "Puerile Asinine Gibberish" incorrectly, somehow it came out looking like the word "wattle".

(e) Include intellectual diversity concerns in the institution's guidelines on teaching and program development and such concerns shall include but not be limited to the protection of religious freedom including the viewpoint that the Bible is inerrant.