Here's a little article to get you thinking. The University of Kansas is planning a new course named "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies." Mythologies? I thought universities were there to open a persons mind not narrow it down to a pre-chosen path. I am not talking about the merits of Intelligent Design, I'm talking about the position the university has taken by targeting a belief as a "myth." There is something wrong when intellectual institutions ignore their mandate, that of training the next generation of intellectuals, and attempt to suppress the beliefs of a person, not through discourse, but through belittlement. Myth. Is there no longer the need to respect the beliefs of others? Is there no longer a need to train minds through and in the skills of logic and critical thinking? Is the opinion of the old guard so sacrosanct that it can not be questioned or arrived at through independent thought? Must the next generation be spoon fed the ideas of the current rather than be allowed to arrive at those conclusions on their own? Is there such a fear in academia that the current set of assumptions could be challenged or even, heaven forbid, disproved, that students must be directed in their thinking so that dissent can not raised without risking failure? It is indeed sad to think that our centres of learning could be transformed into centres of propaganda and spin in order to maintain the status quo. Could "Introduction to Politics" become "The Inferiority of Other Political Systems?" Could "Introduction to Macro Economics" become "The Inevitable Evolution to Market Based Economies?" It is difficult to see why these changes can not be made. If our mosaic of ideas can, through the "education" of our institutions of learning, be reduced to a single square, how will new ideas ever hope to see the light of day?