Comments on: I Wonder Who Designed the Logo…

By: Jason Wyrick

Jason Wyrick — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:46:16 +0000

I’m a TCU alumn and I can say, at least while I went there, that TCU was very involved in the sciences and did not bring up Creationism in the classroom. Definitely a secular school that just happens to be funded by the Disciples of Christ. They were open enough that they even allowed our ridiculously named club, Pagans for Hedonism and Darwinism, to operate for awhile (they eventually made us change the name because it was an acronym for PhD, which we did intentionally.)

By: TXatheist

TXatheist — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:28:17 +0000

Wow, if TCU, Baylor and SMU are secular what is UT-Austin? Sorry, but of the family/friends I know that went to the first 3 it most certainly is a conservative school that places the bible in high regard instead of a scholastic position of plagiarized mythology like secular colleges do.

By: ATL-Apostate

ATL-Apostate — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:56:32 +0000

Just to echo another respondent:
TCU is a fairly secular school. They do have a Divinity school (as do other secular schools, e.g., Duke), which tends to be fairly “liberal.” It should come as no surprise to a Christian (fundy or otherwise) or an atheist that TCU has classes that teach evolution.

ATL-Apostate

By: miller

miller — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:23:54 +0000

LOL, too true.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:24:54 +0000

Edgy? Who considers it edgy? I never considered it edgy. I thought it was absolutely normal, until I met the internet.

Just a hair of background: I’m in Tulsa, OK, and was, in fact raised in a deeply fundamentalist version of the religion. I was unclear. Fundies often think the evolution-accepting Xians are edgy as in on the edge of damnation. Non-fundie Xians often think the Fundies are silly as in silly in the head.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:46:01 +0000

I’m confused. Is the point of this post that a school with “Texas” and “Christian” in the name is teaching a course on evolution? Disregarding the fact that TCU is not an evangelical or conservative college, but rather a mainstream or even liberal one? With a reputation for solid academics, especially in biology and the other sciences? I’m not a Christian anymore, but it’s rather offensive to assume that all Christians or Christian organizations believe the same drivel that the Vocal Right believe.

By: Richard Wade

Richard Wade — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:13:49 +0000

Justin, please give us a report when you return. It sounds like it will be fascinating. Email to Hemant, and I think he’ll publish it as a post.

By: Pseudonym

Pseudonym — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:54:47 +0000

Edgy? Who considers it edgy? I never considered it edgy. I thought it was absolutely normal, until I met the internet.

I was wondering that myself. Maybe you have to have grown up in the Deepest Darkest Bible Belt (which is, theologically speaking, an exception to pretty much every rule).

By: miller

miller — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:23:58 +0000

There are loads of Xians who have no problem reconciling evolution with an ongoing reinterpretation of Christianity. They’re considered edgy and all that, but they’re real.

Edgy? Who considers it edgy? I never considered it edgy. I thought it was absolutely normal, until I met the internet.

By: Becky Robinson

Becky Robinson — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:37:31 +0000

As mentioned, TCU is a Disciples of Christ school, the religion in which I was raised. It is very progressive. They even have their own gay and lesbian alliance: http://www.gladalliance.org/about.html

It is not surprising that they would accept evolution and even promote it.