In a possibly not unrelated story:
Incoming Baylor University President to honor Intelligent Design professor

A change in leadership certainly makes a difference. Past recent administrations at Baylor University in Waco have maintained sensible policies protecting scientific integrity against those who would force their dogmatic religious beliefs on unsuspecting students paying top dollar for higher education. The previous administrations have resisted efforts by some professors in the so-called “Intelligent Design” movement who sought to distort the principles of modern science to include religious teachings tantamount to creationist fundamentalism.

Dr. Bob Marks is one of these professors in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department who has caused friction with the administration for promoting his Intelligent Design theories on the University website. Marks was ultimately overruled and forced to remove the offending content.

But now times have changed. Incoming Baylor president Kenneth Starr, infamous for heading the investigations that led to impeachment of former Democrat President Bill Clinton, has announced that shortly after he enters office in June of this year, he will honor Marks for his efforts. “If ever there was a University where discussions of faith and science could be welcomed it is Baylor University. We should commend those with the courage to address the difficult questions, such as origins of life, that touch on both our scientific knowledge and understanding and our deeply held religious beliefs.”

Contrary to what some might assume, Baylor and its West Texas counterpart, Wayland Baptist U, did a pretty good job of resisting creationist infiltration through most of the twentieth century. This was not because they were more modern than other Baptists. In fact, it was because they were actually more traditional: Separation of church and state was a bedrock Baptist principle from the movement’s very earliest days until quite recently, predating the First Amendment by a couple of centuries. As we see, this has changed within a single generation and even Baylor has surrendered to the onslaught of politically motivated pseudoscience.