Creation Science Prayer Alert

The Institute for Creation Research Graduate School wants to offer a Masters degree in Creation Science Education. So a couple months ago they asked for authorization from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to teach the course. Unfortunately, the ICR has had to ask the Board not to consider their proposal this month. It seems the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has a few questions that the ICR did not consider.

Online learning. “Given all the research that demonstrates that science is best learned by actually doing it, how are you going to give students the proper exposure to the experimentation side of science online?” Parades said that this question is one he would ask of any online science program and wasn’t related specifically to creationism.

Curriculum. “Their curriculum doesn’t line up very well with the curriculum available in conventional master of science programs here in Texas,” he said. “I wanted them to either revise the curriculum or explain why it departed from the norm.”

Research. Paredes said that the institute “claims that their faculty do actual research,” so he asked for “material that documented the research activities under way” and that show the research to be “based on solid scientific research.”

I can't wait to hear about the types of lab experiments that the students will do. I'm also eager to hear about specific types of research on Creation Science being done by ICR faculty. This should be interesting.