Patterson Exposed (and a Plea to Iowa State Daily)
by bipodIn 1983 the Iowa State Daily supposedly ran comments and a full satire piece on John "I'm gonna get ya" Patterson for a proposal made to an official Iowa State University education committee (from which you can read some quotes below). If anyone from the Iowa State Daily reads this blog, could you scan in a copy of those issues that dealt with Patterson (comments and satire), upload them and post the link in the comments section?
Juicy comments from Mr John "McCarthy" Patterson, persecutor emeritus at Iowa State University. In 1983 Patterson brought the following before an ISU committee on instruction in the sciences and humanities.:
I suggest that every professor should reserve the right to fail any student in his class no matter what the grade record indicates, whenever basic misunderstandings of a certain magnitude are discovered. Moreover, I would propose retracting grades and possibly even degrees if such gross misunderstandings are publicly espoused after passing the course, or after being graduated…. In geology and biology, denying the facts of evolution or an earth age in the order of billions of years, would, in my view, be grounds for drastic action…Resorting to arguments based on religious commitments, personal inspirations, revelations, and such would not be acceptable defenses; however, logically coherent arguments based on valid evidence could be. Decisions as to what is logically coherent or what is valid evidencewould have to be made by appropriate faculty experts or panels who might also be called to task if their rationale(s) reflect academic irresponsibility or scholarly incompetence.
Patterson's comments to the committee were later published in Liberty Magazine, November 1984, p. 18.
August 31st, 2005 at 4:59 pm
More of Patterson's gems:
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September 1st, 2005 at 11:37 am
Here are 4 science students that Patterson would want to flunk or have their degrees revoked:
a senior in biology, two seniors in engineering, and an alumn in geology
Ehren Whigam, Senior Biology
Peter Swanson, Senior Mechanical Engineering
Chris Levang, Senior Mechanical Engineering
Tom Borseth, Alum Geology
To see the next generation of science students being so friendly to ID is heartwarming.
I can tell that they are well schooled in ID literature in that they mention ideas in the DvD Unlocking the Mystery of Life and Thaxton, Bradely, and Olsen's book, The Mystery of Life's Origin. Gosh I'm proud of these science students.
It gives me hope that the spirit of exploration and free-inquiry has not given in to the likes of Patterson.
I like Dembski's question:
Comment by Salvador T. Cordova — September 1, 2005 @ 11:37 am
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:12 am
This remind me, in my own country you could not become a teacher (at any level) or news reporter and many other public office holder, if you are not a member of The Communist Party. Am I or am I not changing the subject here?
Comment by inunison — September 2, 2005 @ 5:12 am