With a big conference of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities coming up next week one situation discussed in the hallways may be what Karl Giberson revealed last month at The Daily Beast: “Most evangelical colleges teach evolution, albeit quietly, carefully, and often tentatively, although there are exceptions.”
Giberson, for many years a science professor at CCCU-member Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Mass., described how he insinuated evolution in his classroom, with one clear result: “[M]ost of the 50 percent of my students who rejected evolution at the beginning of my course accepted it by the end. My colleagues at other evangelical colleges report similar experiences.”
Giberson didn’t like it that his evolution advocacy couldn’t be open: “Those of us teaching evolution at evangelical colleges are made to feel as if we have this subversive secret we must whisper quietly in...
