Jeff Meyer in consideration for Liberty U HC opening
Per various outlets, Michigan basketball assistant Jeff Meyer is in the mix for the Liberty University head coach position. He was the head man at LU for 16 years before being fired in 1997. It's probably worth noting that LU is a private Christian school and would probably be looking for an experienced coach who is also an Evangelical Christian (which Meyer is).
This would be a huge loss for Michigan. Aside from his coaching prowess, Meyer is the probably the best recruiter on Beilein's staff. He was the lead man on many of UM's highly rated recruits, including top 5 player Mitch McGary.
As a preemptive reminder - there is a no politics/religion rule.
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to your question: Yes. But you are conflating creationists with Christians. Thank God there are many more of the latter than the former.
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I guess I'll bite since there's an easy answer.
Why does forcing its biology department to teach young earth creationism make Liberty a fake school?
Because young earth creationism has as much to do with biology as bizarre conspiracy theories have to do with history. Imagine an astronomy department that is required to teach you about the planet Vulcan or a chemistry department that has to teach the caloric theory of heat. There'd be something wrong with a university that housed such departments, because they'd be misleading students about the body of facts established in those sciences and about the theories scientists working in those fields use to explain them. But Liberty's Department of Biology is doing something even worse than teaching outdated and discredited theories. It's teaching a theory that has never been found credible by any community of biologists for purely doctrinal purposes. Since no institution that operates with the express purpose of indoctrinating students can be a real university, Liberty is a fake one. Simple as that.
Liberty is a Christian school. As such, they teach Young Earth Creationism. If a prospective student wants to learn about evolution, they are able to do that at another school.
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I don't think you should insult a major world religion by pretending that Christianity involves buying into objectively stupid, provably false pseudo-science, but it'd be kind of out of bounds around here to keep going on about this, so let's drop it.
As of 8:28 ET, this board has at least five people who disagree with Jon06's post. I find that depressing.