Seversky
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Joined: June 2010
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DeNews O'Leary [URL=http://http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/interview-colorado-lawyer-barry-arrington-on-recent-free-speech-about-darwins-errors-win-a
t-colorado-university/]interviews[/URL] Bully Arrington who continues to gloat about his victory in the case of the Colorado University "student who was verbally attacked by a Darwinist."
Let us be quite clear about this. If the biology professor verbally abused the student in the way that is alleged then he should be the subject of disciplinary action.
However, the only account we have of this event so far comes from Arrington himself. As far as we know he was not a witness to what happened so what he says is hearsay. We have heard nothing from the plaintiff or the defendant or any students who witnessed the incident. For all we know, it did not happen as described, the professor may have wanted to defend the case but was overruled by the university - or their insurance company - on the grounds that it would be much cheaper to concede and issue an apology.
It prompts me to wonder how readily Arrington would come to the defense of a high school biology teacher who was not only verbally abused by Christian students and, subsequently, their parents for attempting to teach the theory of evolution as required by the curriculum but was also denied any support by the school administration.
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