Professor Paul Mirecki assaulted 



religious studies chair paul mirecki, the professor at KU whose unfortunate email mocking intelligent design was released and resulted in the cancellation of that course, has apparently been assaulted by two men, aged 30-40, driving a pickup in a rural area outside lawrence, kansas, according to wdaf tv. (no specific link yet.) mirecki was heading for breakfast when the shocking and pointless attack came.

it is unknown whether this assault has anything to do with his statements about intelligent design and the intelligence of its adherents. but i'd be willing to put money on it's being a reeeeal long coincidence.


i'm not a fan of creationism, intelligent design, religion in school, or the dilution of education to political cheerleading for the republican-controlled congress and white house and supreme court. i am most particularly not a fan either of political discourse coming from the fist or the barrel of the gun. but it never pays to tell people to bring it on and like i said after the elections, don't try to piss off the gunrack set, please. we are all americans, after all.


UPDATE: thoughts from both tony's kansas city and thoughts from kansas. MSM coverage at lawrence 6 news (video), the lawrence journal-world (thanks heidi) and the kansas city star.

there seems to be a bit of skepticism from tony and a couple of his commenters as to whether this happened at all. tony makes a persuasive argument that no one knows hat he looks like. however, i found a picture of him quite easily with a search engine; would a pocket nazi like these two have done so, and tracked him down, and determined his movements, and run him off the road?

coulda happened quite easily. i'll assume it did. but i'll await further developments. for instance, if the men involved are caught.

UPDATE 2: thoughts from kansas lays out why this certainly occurred. i agree.

UPDATE 3: mirecki resigns as chair of the religious studies program. 

Posted: Mon - December 5, 2005 at 09:46 PM             |

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