I have no idea how these religious "universities" operate (there's nothing of the sort in my home country), but I can imagine that prospective students are quite religious anyway and are already convinced of the significance of ID.* So, instead of asking for the obvious, it might be better to use them as an ID "think tank" and have them work on the real-world issues that ID is facing.
The Avoidance Education system is I believe, uniquely American.
The basic (although seldom admitted) reason is that Biblical, Fundamental Christians found out that when their kids were actually exposed to real science, geology, astronomy, history, physics, biology, ethics, philosophy, economics, mathematics, statistics, even theology the kids did realize that they were being taught absolute nonsense and so did leave the fold. They left in droves, herds, gaggles, murders, prides, shrewdnesses, troops, flanges, shoals, batteries, flocks, ... and every other collective noun imaginable including a wisdom. (extra credit for the first person to point to the critter referred to by the collective wisdom).
The answer was simple.
If it was possible to avoid exposing the kids to all the knowledge out there, then they would not question the nonsense.
So a whole growth industry was born in the US, Avoidance Schools, Avoidance textbooks so the kids could be taught at home and unexposed, Avoidance Accreditation Panels, Avoidance Peer Review Processes, a whole society built around the concept that we already have the answer, no questions need apply.
And thus this thread. Note that there is no requirement to actually debate, only to propagandize, no requirement to test the quality of the posts or their effectiveness, only the quantity, no need to examine responses, just preach the Gospel.
* As a besides, I would be interested to see how many students drop out of such programs because they become convinced of the fact that they are being taught complete nonsense...
Likely far fewer than you might imagine. It is only later, when they actually get out of school and out of the insulation of the Avoidance Society that they get challenged. And then only if they enter a field where information is open and free flowing.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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