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Gene Jacobs: What Democrats accept

Regarding the Aug. 23 Point of View “Berger’s right: Most UNC professors are Democrats. Here’s why”: Professor William Snider asserts that the reason that Democrats outnumber Republicans 12:1 in faculty positions at the University of North Carolina is that a majority of Republicans have an anti-science attitude. He states those “unlearned” Republicans don’t believe in the theory of evolution, which is the central organizing principle of modern biology. Secondly, he says they doubt climate change science that he and other scientists believe as factual.

What the professor is saying, perhaps unknowingly, is that we Democratic professors don’t accept God’s word that He created man and woman fully developed and that He created the earth and the universe. He is saying that we professors don’t accept God’s word that He created the world without climate change and without rainfall. Moreover, we don’t believe that God brought about severe climate change to create a worldwide flood and, thereafter, to show His power over the earth.

Originally, schools of higher learning in America were formed to teach the Bible, the only source of truth. Now most of these schools are dominated by anti-biblical professors all to the detriment of our society.

Gene Jacobs

Pinehurst

This story was originally published August 25, 2016 at 4:03 PM with the headline "Gene Jacobs: What Democrats accept."

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