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November 21, 2005

Designed Completely Without Foresight

Balloon Juice brings us this story of Evangelical students schooled in Intelligent Design having their "biology" class credits rejected by California public universities.

Mr. Young, his teachers and his family fear his beliefs may hurt his chance to attend the university. They say the public university system, which has 10 campuses, discriminates against students from evangelical Christian schools, especially faith-based ones like Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta, where Mr. Young is a senior.

Mr. Young, five other Calvary students, the school and the Association of Christian Schools International, which represents 4,000 religious schools, sued the University of California in the summer, accusing it of “viewpoint discrimination” and unfair admission standards that violate the free speech and religious rights of evangelical Christians.

Taking a gander at some of the evangelical, ahem, science texts, it's little surprise.

Still, I share Mr. Young's disappointment. Had I known my own university wouldn't accept the credits, I never would have enrolled in AP Alchemy as a junior in high school. I was always a bit crap at it to begin with. I could never get my Philosopher's Stone to work properly during the exams. Not my fault, though. They never specified pencils weren't a suitable source for the lead to gold conversions. How the hell was I supposed to know number two graphite resulted in tinsel? Still, to this day, I'm dead useful during the holidays. So perhaps it wasn't a total loss.

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