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to religion professors at calvin college uh... cardinal was having trouble
because i have a scholar at scholarly article that they're out
about genetics in evolution and how it made them question
of the literal interpretation of genesis okay so the two professors in question
are john schneider and david harlow and both as i mentioned
uh... where religion professors at calvin college
since they publish their work john schneider has quit his job he has
resigned even though he was a tenured professor and even though he
was a professor at the university for over twenty five years uh... daniel
harlem refuses to quit and jackie is defending the work that he did and that
he's defending the fact that he published the scholarly article
articles so now let me tell you what they read about them
they looked into genetics they looked at abolition and they said look
it's very difficult to look and genesis two region is the syllabi bought and
interpreted literally
when we have scientific data that proves
otherwise
okay which in haiti is a very reasonable thing to come up with it's like okay
here here we go
here's our research here the fax
now it's difficult for us to interpret the bible in this very
specific way
when literal way movement in this list without card came from which i think is
the part of the reason why the pressure
came across to do so there's a lot of the you know did this all came for three
days of the banner as uh... put the christian publication
they would do it make you know that they caught wind of this and maybe some
people have sometimes this 'cause really accusing you of that maybe they went
there whatever reason
their people arround were upset insult to meet a couple of of the closeness of
the comments
uh... two percent interest to protect interest in college from false teachers
in compton country without police
in the right to let these guys go
uh... and i would say clearly prepares to deny the scriptures as interpreted by
our creeds into a broken a promise they made
when they sign the form of subscription should be fired so when you can hear
that when your callers that has to deal with
people that are there may be i don't know how much money they get to these
people known and things like that that i think they got freaked out and scared by
force and also made a digital belief bomb fall into thinking that we can have
president teaching our kids that came for this particular kind of education
scientific facts
or things in a basin scientific study and results of their gotten from things
from that point of view i don't know maybe that's why the gas holding on to
you can find out
and i think that if he keeps fighting it out at a lower ag think that you'll be
able to act keep his job but he just say that he feels a tremendous amount of
pressure to resign
you know of course the fundamentalist owners the university are asking for him
to resign
of course there against the fact that these two professors say that you can
interpret the bible literally and it's so stupid because it shows you that
fundamentalists are so insecure with their own religion
okay because in it
you have to be insecure in order to push back against
under particle expects right if you are secure with your own religion and if you
believe in the literal interpretation of the bible if you're not gonna care with
a budget would have been just scientists say you're not gonna care with what a
couple christians who i do not believe in the lowly interpretation of the bible
stay right you're gonna believe what you want to believe and you move on
but i know that the literal interpretation of the bible does it make
sense they know that their fax out there do you know that there's scientific
evidence
proving the bible rock so since they know that there is secure about their
own beliefs and in order to make up for that they kind of
you know criticizing they discredit the facts as much as they can and they do
whatever they can to avoid the facts and get rid of the professors who have the
scientific data
iran the professors who have
contradiction crop contradicting
theories and ideas about religion for these two professors made a note to
point out that they're not saying that
against
the belief in existence of god not harvest of rats so they want to make
sure though that distinction anniston work out for them right some of the
vendors than outcome of this could be the point of disagreement
i think that's all their right to do this to these guys that sucks for them
but they've kind of i'd feel
outgrown
what this university is all about and as i look at the mississippi about the next
reasoning
so from colin powell is there um...
their there
the beginning of their
mission statement what they are all about what they plan to do is uh...
calvin college has been shaped in his faith and scholarship by the central
convictions has fought for them me was the four corners
the bible is the authoritative spirit breathing room god fully reliable in
leading believers to no graphics walk with christ in the midst of life
they have to be one of them doesn't want they've even though it and and i agree
the wrong they should probably raise the progression of of accepting that in
accepting that things can happen in this world
guide creating it you can't have that acceptance but they don't feel like you
had no idea professors they're too busy being normal or or advancing their
teaching and then you know there may be curriculum around it
then they want to stay back ready let go of guys the progress payment that sucks
episodes more for the culture they're they're getting left behind
adding left behind but they don't care because they're fundamentalists that
belief in the literal interpretation the final sale they don't care at all that
they don't they don't even realize that they're being left behind
but uh... i disagree to some extent ok i think that the professor should be the
university
uh... based on what they want not with the university want someone might say
that
as a professor university and as a professor at least ten years
you are supposed to have academic freedom
you are not supposed to be intimidated by the university teach ap or the
institution you teach at him as a professor you are supposed to have the
ability to research and publish work that is supported by actual evidence and
that's exactly what they did in this case
they should not risk losing their jobs by sharing truth and sharing fax to
their students and that's what happened in this case now do i think the
professor should leave the university yes because this is stephen university
calvin college is stupid if they wanna live in their students and they want to
keep scientific evidence in scientific data away from their students
okay and that there is a teacher at the earliest statement though that same
mission statement and these look here's what happened at this point he said is
generally in the news is that he had to keep certain
has been from live from the simpson is over
uh... right so i think that would happen with these professors is
invaded study data studies they did their research and they figure it out
looked at the literal interpretation of genesis doesn't make sense were changing
our
that our theological perspective ok and you can hear that you grow as a
professor and you learn new things and that's what happened to them and let
based on the new information that they learned
they should be able to look at the mission statement compound in college
and making a decision as to whether or not they still want to be professors at
this institution
however the fact that calvin college is
rejecting this information and rejecting his data makes the university in my
opinion
anon credible university
if you want to be that way that's fine but you should fire professors because
they're smarter than him center which is what happened in this case