Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease

sciencehabit writes "A creationist conference set for a major research campus — Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing — is creating unease among some of the school's students and faculty, which includes several prominent evolutionary biologists. The event, called the Origins Summit, is sponsored by Creation Summit, an Oklahoma-based nonprofit Christian group that believes in a literal interpretation of the Bible and was founded to "challenge evolution and all such theories predicated on chance." The one-day conference will include eight workshops, according the event's website, including discussion of how evolutionary theory influenced Adolf Hitler's worldview, why "the Big Bang is fake," and why "natural selection is NOT evolution." News of the event caught MSU's scientific community largely by surprise. Creation Summit secured a room at the university's business school through a student religious group, but the student group did not learn about the details of the program—or the sometimes provocative talk titles — until later.

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Re:Why at a place of learning?

[funwithBSD]

Science does not believe.

Religion does not prove.

There is no Venn diagram overlapping the two.

Re:It makes you uneasy?

[frovingslosh]

Let them wallow in their beliefs.

Sure, that's done a lot of good so far. Like all of the religious wars around the world. The acts of devout religious believers like ISIS. A world where families trying to raise their children are heavily taxed but churches are free to wallow in their untaxed riches. Whole nations who justify their atrocities against others because they are "Gods chosen people". Child molesters mostly untouched by the law because they are "respected" church priests. Groups of people who want to take the entire next generation and teach them bullshit like they are guilty of a sin that was supposedly committed by a fictional caveman, that sin being to "eat from the tree of knowledge"; even though the evidence is that most have their thinking processes so damaged into adulthood that they can't accept reason and want to do this to their own children.

I live in a country so controlled by the religious ignorant that one has to profess the complete stupidity of religion to get elected, an Atheist who professes to be rational and thinking can't be elected because of the hate of the masses. And you think we should "let them wallow in their beliefs" even to the point of using tax payer funded facilities to do so?