Tuesday, August 11, 2009

"Intelligent Design" course...

at Southern Evangelical Seminary requires that students troll the web and write posts defending intelligent design (ID) as the course requirements show:
AP410 This is the undegrad [sic] course. You have three things to do: (1) take the final exam (worth 40% of your grade); (2) write a 3,000-word essay on the theological significance of intelligent design (worth 40% of your grade); (3) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling [sic] 2,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).

AP510 This is the masters course. You have four things to do: (1) take the final exam (worth 30% of your grade); (2) write a 1,500- to 2,000-word critical review of Francis Collins’s The Language of God -- for instructions, see below (20% of your grade); (3) write a 3,000-word essay on the theological significance of intelligent design (worth 30% of your grade); (4) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling [sic] 3,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).
Emphasis in bold print is mine. The good news is that this is likely not an accredited institution of higher education.

2 comments:

  1. Inteligent design does not seem to have prevailed when one observes the "literacy" of the course requirements and its architects.

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  2. How do you find these things? Are you a lunacy magnet, Dr. Buchanan?

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