Darrow v. Bryan at DSU?

DSU is hosting a public forum tonight that could be as fun as putting biology teachers on trial. From the daily DSU newsletter:

"Where Does God Belong?"

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of DSU and DSU's Secular Student Organization will be sponsoring a forum discussion event entitled "Where Does God Belong?" on Tuesday, April 29th at 7:00 PM.

Skyler Gallimore & Derek Henkels will be speaking on behalf of DSU's Secular Student Organization. Matthew Paulson and Jamie Erickson will be speaking on behalf of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

The first half of the discussion will focus on the separation of church and state. The second half of the discussion will focus on the origins of morality. Do our moral values come from a creator God or through millennia of evolution? Let's find out together!

After the two discussion topics, audience members will have a chance to ask questions of the panelists.

Secular Student Organization? Easy, Sibby -- don't come get all medieval on the kids. They haven't taken over the campus yet. They themselves say their goal is not conversion but conversation (nice!). Believe it or not, the SSO even conducts reulgar Bible study sessions. Even us non-believers have to understand the book 85% of our fellow Americans profess to follow. (Tell me again, Sibby, how an 85% Christian majority is a persecuted minority?)

So where does God belong at DSU? Perhaps the panelists and audience can discuss this DSU webpage, where Prof. Dan Mortensen uses public resources to offer a number of useful Christian resources for finding churches and confronting a secular worldview. The prof also includes an icthys at the top of his homepage. Interesting... I'll have to look around to see if any of our Muslim professors post professions of their faith on their webpages. Enlightened thinkers that we are, our culture will surely embrace such diversity.

Separation of church and state, foundations of morality -- sounds like good fun! Read your Bible, read your Darwin, and come chat with your neighbors, believers and doubters alike, at tonight's forum!