Via Sara at Orcinus (read at Geoff’s blog):

I’ve been saying for a long while now that the power to end the Intelligent Design fiasco, firmly and finally and with but a single word, rests in the manicured hands of the chancellors of America’s top universities. The message is short and simple: “Teach what you like, it’s all fine with us. But if you put ID in your science courses, we will not accept those courses as adequate for admission to our campus.”

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In a story that seems to have gotten almost no attention outside the local area, the University of California — the nation’s largest university system (motto: Fiat Lux, or “let there be light”) — has been engaged in a legal battle with Calvary Chapel Christian School over the question of what is an acceptable science education, and what rights a university has when it comes to drawing those lines.

While various school boards around the country continue to start small skirmishes over the merits of intelligent design, it is nice to finally see a university take a firm stand in such matters. It is very frustrating, and indeed quite maddening to watch so many institutions capitulate to the mere possibility of bad publicity. Whatever happened to standing up for one’s principles?