CeilingCat
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| Quote (sparc @ Nov. 09 2013,22:16) | What's left besides being responsible for currently four enjoyable Uncommonly Dense Threads still going strong?
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Note that Dembski got his first degree in 1981 and his last in 1996. If it took 4 years to get his first degree, then he was ensconced in the halls of acadamia for 18 or 19 years while earning seven degrees in five different fields.
What does the real world think of such professional studentry?
| Quote | | After completing graduate school in 1996, Dembski was unable to secure a university position; from then until 1999 he received what he calls "a standard academic salary" of $40,000 a year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC). "I was one of the early beneficiaries of Discovery largess," says Dembski. |
How did he break back into the academic world? | Quote | | In 1999, Dembski was invited by Robert B. Sloan, President of Baylor University, to establish the Michael Polanyi Center at the university. Named after the Hungarian physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi (1891–1976), Dembski described it as "the first intelligent design think tank at a research university". Dembski had known Sloan for about three years, having taught Sloan's daughter at a Christian study summer camp not far from Waco, Texas. |
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So he went from a mere high school graduate to the world's most academically distinguished Christian Camp Councilor in only two decades. Along the way, he got Sloan fired, established himself as a world class asshole and, in an attempt to worm his way back into academia, published the names, addresses, email addresses and private phone numbers of the entire Baylor Board of Reagents. He also suggested that UD readers use them to contact the Board members because he somehow thought that would help his career. I'd love to have access to some of the voice mail messages that the Reagents must have received. Especially any long ones from Carribean area codes.
Since then, he has discovered that he's "over qualified" for conservative Christian colleges and the liberal Christian colleges are not eager for his services either. I sure hope the Discotute's money holds out.
Truly, Dembski is a Hero of ID.
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