Inside Higher Ed has a note on Crackergate - usual suspects in the comments.
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It's amazing that a "journal of higher education" just breezes over the attacks - which started the whole thing - on UCF students Webster Cook and Benjamin Collard by both the Catholic League and the University of Central Florida (not even mentioning their names).
Do only professors (and professional Catholics) matter?
They even mamaged to mangle Webster Cook's story in the article.
And why is it so many vehement American Christians can't spell?
The heart of the matter is this:
A high-achieving student's career, and likely his life, is being destroyed by "respected" (read: powerful) religious hosers -- and this is happening at a SECULAR, TAXPAYER-FUNDED institution.
If that doesn't drive you to nailing a cracker, what would? And I'm not an atheist!
I'd like to see your review of the new book: Frank J. Tipler, The Physics of Christianity. Award-winning Science Fiction author John Scalzi said this on his "Whatever" blog: Finally, a science book to make PZ Myers shoot blood from his ears! Can't wait to see that. Tipler looks at the various miracles of Christianity and attempts to find a rational, scientific basis for them. I have to say that my first reaction on seeing the book was, "oh, this is just like those 'Science of Star Trek' books, with God instead of the USS Enterprise." Which means, of course, that I'm destined for Hell. This one manifests on August 19.