Earlier, I expressed my concern that a quarter of college grads are creationists, and was worried about the students at my university. Maybe it’s not so bad. My excuse is that maybe those other colleges, like Wallace State, are bringing the average down.
The Wallace State Alumni Association is planning a group trip to…the Ark Park and Creation “museum”. Their chipper coordinator happily chirped out a few words of praise.
“This should be a great trip,” said LaDonna Allen, WSCC Alumni Coordinator. “The Ark Encounter opened in July 2016 and is a sister attraction of the Creation Museum located about 40 miles apart. We’ve heard lots of good things about both.”
Hmmm. Maybe Wallace State doesn’t want to be taken seriously by educated people, which is an awfully peculiar attitude for a college to take. They are sending out a crystal clear message that it’s a place for religious loons with no respect for science.
Wow, that’s pathetic.
Funny thing, I saw an ad for the Ark Encounter on TV last night. It too was pathetic.
Probably get the same education going to church and just shelling out a few bucks every Sunday. Save tens of thousands maybe?
Probably get a better education staying home and watching whatever MTV is doing these days.
That is pretty funny though, “We’ve heard lots of good things.” You have to wonder who they’re listening to.
It’s named after former Alabama governor George Wallace.
Why do religious believers bother with education? They should just read the word and die out faster.
Wallace State Community College in Alabama is named after none other than the segregationist governor George Wallace.
And it is a public community college. Is this a religion/state violation? Or is the alumni association exempt?
anat, well, from an anthropological perspective, it’s a very interesting cultural artifact.
I suppose this could be expected from a community college in Alabama, but to be fair it’s the alumni association that’s planning this. I’m wondering what the biology faculty think.
I had no idea there is a creation museum. Ugh!
I am too lazy to look it up right now, but I distinctly remember the Secretary of Education went to one of those goofus-bird college outfits that accepts roughly 99% of applicants.
Did anyone else read “chipper coordinator” and think it referred to a wood chipper?
I did a search on the Wallace State Community College website for “George Wallace,” and got zero search results. Guess it’s been sanitized.
The Wikipedia page hasn’t been; it says the college was “Founded in 1966 as the George C. Wallace State Trade School of Cullman County” and asserts (what I have no reason to doubt) that Wallace “greatly expanded Alabama’s community college system.”