IUSA should not have sponsored religion speech

I am a little disappointed to note that your editorial board did not take the IUSA to task for sponsoring “Examining the Evidence: A Serious Look at God” or critically cover the event itself. Firstly, the IUSA’s avowed aims of sponsoring “...initiatives that discuss political and religious topics must serve a public purpose and not proselytize or force political or religious beliefs on anyone” do not seem to be well met by this event. While I did not attend the series, your glowing coverage seems to portray the event as an attempt by apologists of the Christian faith to validate their beliefs about God and their religious text, the Bible. It never ceases to amaze me that most religions behave like ostriches and pretend that the rest of the world’s religions or gods don’t exist and perceive themselves to be the true torchbearers of a necessarily dubious philosophy.\nIt was irritating to note that the series was being billed as almost a scientific attempt to prove that the Bible was right. The aim of “examining evidence” seemed to lend it a cloak of rational respectability which it did not deserve. Most evolution classes point out that science cannot debate questions like the existence of God. And yet the speaker (who, as your reporter helpfully pointed out, has an MBA and law degree from University of Oregon in Eugene) seemed to offer tortuous explanations of why what he was presenting was on par with real proof.\nAm I supposed to be flattered that he needed the crutch of science to bolster his beliefs?