Read this (via The Panda's Thumb). Here's a taste:
TO THE CHAGRIN OF BAYLOR football fans, once steeped in the steady success of Grant Teaff during his Hall of Fame coaching career that concluded in 1992, their East-Central Texas school is now better known for its controversial role in the dubious effort to move the study of creationism, typically limited to philosophy and religion classes, into the arena of science.
It's an article that rags on creationists in the context of college football. I think I need to change my underpants.
P.S. Fight on!
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