U OF C FINDS PRO-LIFE STUDENTS GUILTY AFTER CLOSED-DOOR HEARINGS,
VOWS “MORE SEVERE SANCTIONS” FOR FUTURE PRO-LIFE ACTIVITIES
CALGARY – The University of Calgary has notified eight members of the Campus Pro-Life (CPL) student group that they have been found guilty of a major violation under the Non-Academic Misconduct Policy regarding a pro-life display held last month. The verdict comes one week after the students each attended individual, closed-door hearings with an Associate Vice-Provost during which legal representatives were disallowed.
The verdict is “a formal written warning” that if the students “fail to comply with directives of Campus Security staff in the future” it will “result in more severe sanctions,” said Acting Associate Vice-Provost Meghan Houghton, who was the sole decision-maker in the guilty verdict.
Fascist feminist educrats are paid with tax money and mandatory student fees to deprive students of their free speech. In the most conservative city in Canada! This is the only campus club that is treated like this. Because of what they believe.
CCBR accepts donations, if you want to help them to fight back against the University of Calgary. Click through the article to read some defiant statements from the pro-life students.
The University of Calgary is proceeding with individual non-academic misconduct hearings, which include the possibility of expulsion, for eight members of the Campus Pro-Life (CPL) student group regarding a pro-life display held earlier this month.
The University administration notified students that “legal representatives are not suitable Advisors and are not welcome” at the individual, closed-door hearings, scheduled for April 28th and April 30th.
“This feels like a show trial where they’ve already convicted us unjustly and now want to punish us unjustly,” said Alanna Campbell, CPL President.
Earlier this month, after having set up a pro-life display on campus for the ninth time since 2006, members of the group were notified that they were being charged with a ‘Major Violation’ under Section 4.10 of the University of Calgary’s Non-Academic Misconduct Policy for “failure to comply with a Campus Security officer or University official in legitimate pursuit of his/her duties.” In 2006 and 2007, during the first four displays of the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) on campus, the University defended the students’ right to expression under the Charter, but in 2008 the University reversed its policy without explanation.
Two hearings will be held on April 28th, at 1:00pm and 1:30pm. The remaining six are scheduled throughout the day on Friday, April 30th, with the first at 9:30am.
“We’ve never received an explanation for why the University reversed their position, nor have we received any explanation as to what a security official’s legitimate duties actually include,” stated Vice-President (Internal) Peter Csillag.
The University of Calgary receives a massive amount of funding from taxpayers. The working parents of those pro-life students are funding the very institution that is intimidating their children.
Dr. Dembski has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Dallas. He has done postdoctoral work in mathematics at MIT, in physics at the University of Chicago, and in computer science at Princeton University. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago where he earned a B.A. in psychology, an M.S. in statistics, and a Ph.D. in philosophy, he also received a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1988 and a master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1996. He has held National Science Foundation graduate and postdoctoral fellowships.
The lecture:
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Summary (snark is in italics)
What is evolution:
Is it enough for Christian students to just retain their faith in college?
Or should Christian students seek to transform their universities?
The word “evolution” refers to a unguided, purposeless, undirected process
Living organisms are not designed, they just appear to be designed
Therefore, it is an atheistic theory – there is NO ROOM for God
Random variations and natural selection can do the creating of life without God
Nothing about evolution suggest that God had anything to do with it
The appearance of design:
The cell is a nano-engineered information processing system.
The cell has engineering, e.g. – signal transduction, message passing, etc.
There are molecular machines similar to man-made machines, but less efficient
E.g. – the bacterial flagellum which has 40 parts
These molecular machines have minimal complexity – all the parts are needed
can’t build a molecular machine step-by-step – all the parts must be present and integrated
How does evolution try to explain molecular machines:
The standard naturalistic response is “co-option”
Each intermediate step has pieces that are used for other purposes
I.e. – Subsets of the parts can have different functions
For example, a subset of the bacterial flagellum can be used as a syringe
The subset, called the Type-3 secretory system, has only 13 parts
The problem is that evolutionists don’t show all the steps, and all the functions
For this to be a good response, you need a smooth path from 1 part up to 40
Each step of the path has to have a working system with a different function
But the atheists don’t have the path, or the intermediate functions
It’s like arguing that you can walk from Seattle to Tokyo via the Hawaiian islands
Is the bacterial flagellum a cherry-picked example?
There are no detailed molecular pathways for any biochemical systems in the cell
The atheistic response is to speculate that pathways will be found as science progresses
The pathways are unobservable entities, just like the multiverse and the Cambrian precursors
Where does the machinery to create proteins come from?
The molecular machines are composed of proteins
The proteins are manufactured by copying protein-building instructions from the DNA
The instructions are carried to the build site by messenger RNA
The build site is called a ribosome
The DNA requires proteins to build, so there is a chicken-and-egg problem
The problem is that protein transcription systems require everything in place
There is no materialistic theory about how to build this step-by-step
So what do the molecular machines tell us about how life began?
The problem of the origin of life is the problem of the origin of information
What needs to be explained are the functional sequences of parts
The sequences are identical to sequences of letters that make sense
The atheist has to say that material processes can create the information
The problem of finding sequences of amino acids or proteins is a search problem
A blind search of the space of possible sequences is not efficient
even with lots time, parts and trials, you can’t converge on functional proteins
information is required and the only known producer of information is a mind
Bill is one of my favorite people. He’s smarter than practically all of the atheists who dominate the universities. But because he is an outspoken Christian, he never gets the recognition he deserves. He just keeps plugging away on his research. He doesn’t make excuses.
Illustra also made two other great DVDs on intelligent design. The first two DVDs “Unlocking the Mystery of Life” and “The Privileged Planet” are must-buys, but you can watch them on youtube if you want, for free.
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