When a Christian claims they have "studied science", have they normally studied at Bob Jones University?

Question

I suppose it is possible that some went to Liberty

Answer 1

It depends on what you mean by "Christians who say they have studied science".

I know what you mean about creationists and the like who say they've "studied science" when it usually means little more than "I finished public high school" and "I can regurgitate some paragraphs from a few creationist websites." Nevermind the ones who get "degrees" from these "universities" that are literally somebody's living room.

However, there are indeed some credible scientists who additionally happen to be Christian. Ron Miller comes to mind. I learned a number of things about evolution from my high school biology class, which was taught by a Xavierian Brother. Both of these men are Catholic, and Catholicism is one example of a Christian sect that does accept evolution. Not all sects are Biblical literalists who take the Book of Genesis as history. Some would even argue that to do so is to completely miss the point of the stories.

Answer 2

Sorry, donkey, but I studied science at a state university. Biology, geology, chemistry, and physics. I won't claim that I was the world's best at the last two, but if I may be so immodest as to say so, I burned up the charts with the first two. I wanted to be a geologist (that, or an archaeologist) at first, but I let myself be talked out of it and majored in English, instead.

And I am definitely a Christian, so there goes the old "Bob Jones" bit.

Answer 3

Bob Jones University also publishes elementary and high school textbooks, they were my text books as a kid while I was being home schooled. I don't remember much time being spent on a creationist perspective of evolutionary biology at all, just one chapter maybe... I'm sure University classes would have more, but I think if the info was so sparse in high school maybe they really don't have much to offer for college....just a thought.

Answer 4

You know you can't trust a school if it has to resort to a separate accrediting agency. Some Christian "universities" do this.

Bob Jones "University" did not even manage this much until recently. Its "accreditation" is by an agency the same people who "accredit" the Institute for Creation Research.



I'm reading the BJU history page on Wikipedia now, and I find it hilarious. Bob Jones himself once threatened any student who attended a *Billy Graham* rally with expulsion because Graham wasn't enough of a fundie nutjob.

Answer 5

Georgetown University, Boston College.
Athanasius Kircher - Discovered Microbes - Jesuit
Cartographers - Explorers - Mathematicians - Linguists -Astronomers - Botonists

Co-founders of Universities - Michigan - Fordham - Notre Dame - Historians and professors.

It is a clear misconception that Science and Christianity are mutually-exclusive. "all things in God, and God in all things.

Answer 6

Bob Jones University is most known for being the largest publisher of anti-Catholic literature in the world. I doubt they have science there.

Answer 7

There are far more Christian University than those two. Broaden your horizons my friend, some Christians actually teach science in secular institutions!

Answer 8

I think they are referring to their 8th grade science class, the science curriculum at Bob Jones is likely far too rigorous for their fragile little minds.

Answer 9

Or ORU
Oral Roberts University, Tulsa OK

Answer 10

Yeah well I studied math too.
I'll be honest I don't have a clue what was going on in math class. I studied and studied and studied...point in I just didn't get it.
So maybe a question would be "define study"