A tough system you are headed to..

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Christian Scholars Face Opposition When Studying Origins
from staff reports

SUMMARY: University faculties take a dim view of alternatives to evolution.

Christian students seeking to study human origins are facing discrimination at many colleges and universities. Experts say Darwin's Theory of Evolution has such a lock on faculty members, few Christians who take a different point of view are getting through advanced degree programs.

Last year, Bryan Leonard, an Ohio State University graduate student, was preparing to defend his doctoral dissertation on the merits of teaching alternatives to evolution. But his dissertation was pulled. University officials determined he was subjecting students in his research to something harmful.

Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, a group that defends teaching evolution in public schools, said Christians should just consider another field of study.

"There are vanishing numbers of conservative Christians working in evolutionary biology," she said. "You don't bring God into your work if you're a bookkeeper. You don't bring God into your work if you're a scientist."

John Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research, said Leonard's experience is not an anomaly.

"There's a closed system there," he told Family News in Focus. "This issue of peer review and peer pressure -- it's real. Political correctness reigns on the campus, and Christianity is definitely not politically correct."