Who says ‘no’ to extra credit?
Last week I was lucky enough to be graced by the presence of two of the most suck-uptastic people at VCU. I won’t mention names or even what class (if you were there you know exactly who I am referring to), but get this: These two people attempted to talk two professors in two different classes OUT of giving the class extra points on a test.
Flawed by design
The debate over intelligent design (ID) should have been resolved when a judge in Scranton, Pa., rejected the Dover, Pa., school board’s attempt to insert intelligent design in its biology curriculum, saying it violated the separation of church and state. The judge, a churchgoing Republican and appointee of President Bush, could probably tell you that religion had everything and nothing to do with his decision.
Opinion in Brief
The Kenyan government launched an attack last week on one of the country’s major media companies in response to its critical reports about widespread government corruption. Masked police officers armed with AK-47s raided the company’s television and printing divisions, destroying equipment and lighting thousands of editions of the day’s paper on fire.
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The missing Darwinists As a professor of biology at VCU whose research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of evolutionary change from a mathematical perspective, I felt it necessary to provide some perspective on the recent op-ed letter entitled “Darwinism: Philosophy, not science.