Liberty University invites a non-Christian Mormon to speak at commencement, and there’s no faculty outcry (only from the students). Emory invites a famed surgeon who happens to be a creationist, and 500 professors and staff—including 90 professors just from Emory—blow up and submit an official letter of protest.
Apparently, the liberals are more zealous for defending their faith and their institutions than us Christians. The Washington Post reports,
An unusual controversy has erupted at Emory University over the choice of famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson to deliver this year’s commencement address because he does not believe in evolution.
Nearly 500 professors, student and alumni signed a letter (see full text below) expressing concern that Carson, as a 7th Day Adventist, believes in creationist theory that holds that all life on Earth was created by God about 6,000 years ago. It rejects Darwin’s theory of evolution, which is the central principle that animates modern biology, uniting all biological fields under one theoretical tent, and which virtually all modern scientists agree is true. . . .
