Will There Be UW Creation Science Institute Too?
How soon will the complaints start because there isn’t a UW Creation Science Institute?
A new evolution institute at UW-Madison got final approval from a university committee Thursday.
The J.F. Crow Institute for the Study of Evolution will bring together 70 faculty members who study evolution in seven different schools and colleges.
While other universities have a department or graduate program for evolutionary biology, at UW-Madison, such scientists are scattered across campus, said David Baum, a botany professor.
The institute will have a starting budget of roughly $7,000 and will be housed administratively in the genetics department, which is in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
It is named for James F. Crow, a professor emeritus of genetics.
There will be complaints, but the university won’t give in. In this case, universities get to be reasonable, teach what’s obvious, and stand on what’s true even though there are religious people (I’m religious, too, but not anti-evolution) who don’t like it.