Christians Sue UC Over Admissions Standards
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
In a small room at the University of California’s headquarters in downtown Oakland, UC counsel Christopher Patti sat beside a stack of textbooks proposed for use by Calvary Chapel Christian School in Riverside County — books UC rejected as failing to meet freshmen admission requirements.
Biology and physics textbooks from Christian publishers were found wanting, as were three Calvary humanities courses.
“The university is not telling these schools what they can and can’t teach,” Patti said. “What the university is doing is simply establishing what is and is not its entrance requirements. It’s really a case of the university’s ability to set its own admission standards. The university has no quarrel with Christian schools.”
The Association of Christian Schools International, which claims 4,000 member schools including Calvary Chapel and 800 other schools in California, disagrees. On Aug. 24, it sued the university in federal court for religious bias.
There are two very different ideas about science at the root of this dispute.
Religious people contend that science is what you believe it is, and real scientists believe that science requires evidence for to support its beliefs. I will admit, however, that scientists often hold beliefs that are not supported with evidence, especially when it comes to politics.
But Christians are way out in left field when it comes to science. The world science does not even belong in the same sentence with the word Christian unless the sentence suggests that Christianity is the opposite of science.
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December 12th, 2005 at 11:51 pm
Amen brother!