What Happened to Academic Freedom?

The United States is home to some of the greatest universities but in many of them academic freedom is severely limited.  I am speaking of their willingness to have professors and instructors teach anything besides Darwinian Evolution.  I was recently reminded of this fact when I came across this sad article.  In California, a group was forced to cancel an event because they were showing a film on Intelligent Design.  In January, the University of Kentucky settled a lawsuit for refusing to hire an astronomer because he was skeptical toward evolution.  The crazy thing about this case was that the astronomer is an evolutionist but the university refused to hire him because he was skeptical about it.  Are our universities really this intolerant?  Are universities not supposed to be a place where a variety of ideas can be discussed or does everyone have to be evolutionists in order to be included in the world of academia.  Read the article on lack of academic freedom here.

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