Things do swing on a pendulum, but the pendulum’s been stuck on the left for about 40 years now. Go rent Indoctrinate U. I highly recommend it.

My senior year in college, I took an organizational psychology class. It covered how and why people work, effiencient work systems, human resources, etc. I’ve never figured out why my professor had to deride Bush in every single class. The course had nothing to do with politics. At the time, I still looked upon Bush favorably, so it was quite insulting. Then there was my Marxist English Lit professor who had never heard of Ayn Rand nor the Fountainhead and believed that we’d all be better off under Stalin. Mind you, this was UT not American. I also took a prehistoric archeology course that somehow got political. My actual political science and journalism courses were the most fair and balanced classes that I ever took.

I think it all swings on a pendulum, and I tend to sit back and watch. I don’t have experience in public universities, as a student or otherwise; but my wife is finishing graduate studies at UTC, and maybe this school is different, but it’s hard to find the bias as described above at that school. It may be in some classrooms, but there are many others where it’s the opposite; and quite a few that could be described as appropriately neutral.

Anyway, this is an interesting discussion, and it is probably not over….

I don’t understand why faith is so reviled among science. It’s only post-Enlightenment that people have had this view that science must be divorced from faith. As someone said in Expelled, many of great scientists in history were devout Christians. Good luck to your colleague. That’s not a position that I would like to encounter.

A belated welcome to Chattanooga.