They will teach you how the world was re-filled after the devastation of the Flood

I guess that I am still relatively new to internet technology and forget that sometimes it is more akin to a bathroom wall than a repository of accurate information. In any event, if you want to send your children to college in Dayton, Tennesse, Bryan College will be there to welcome them with open arms: http://www.bryan.edu/home.html

I just sent them the following email:

To: info@bryan.edu

To whom it may concern:

I am a Canadian parent currently surveying Christian oriented colleges in and around Tennessee to enrol my daughter in. [ok, that's a bit of a white lie ... I'm an athiest and, although my daughter is really smart, she is only 8. Who knows - someday she might want to go to Bible College just to piss me off]

This evening I was surveying your website and your institution appears very impressive. However, am I correct in understanding that the Center for Origins Research is part of your institution? If so, are your regents or board of governors (or whatever you call them) aware of what is going on with that program? I was surveying CORE's website as well and they describe their research as follows:

"These are just a few of the research questions that we are exploring here at CORE. Our research emphasizes five components: design, natural evil, speciation, biogeography, and biosystematics. Design is concerned with the how and why of God's design. In this area we work most closely with philosophers and theologians. Explaining the origins of predators, pathogens, parasites, and poisons is the focus of our work in natural evil. In the area of speciation, we work to understand how the animals and plants that God created gave birth to the animals and plants of our modern world. Biogeography is the science concerned with the places animals and plants live. We try to understand how the world was re-filled after the devastation of the Flood. Biosystematics is the discipline concerned with organizing and classifying the created kinds. For a more complete discussion of the CORE research model, see Dr. Wood's book Understanding the Pattern of Life."

Please tell me this is all a joke.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours truly,

[my real name]

I'll let you know if and when I receive their reply.