President of Ball State University Forbids Teaching Intelligent Design

A few months ago Jerry Coyne learned that an astronomy professor (Eric Hedin) at Ball State University (Indiana, USA) was advocating an intelligent design perspective in his course on "The Boundaries of Science." Jerry contacted the Chair of the department to request that the administration intervene to prevent this professor from expressing his personal opinion in class. Jerry also contacted the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the FFRF lawyers sent a letter to Ball State University threatening them with a lawsuit for exposing students to intelligent design creationism in science class. Jerry Coyne, FFRF, and a host of others, think this course is forbidden by the US Constitution.

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