I would like to object to the headline on the lower half of Tuesday's front page: "Ball State prof accused of preaching Christianity."
It misrepresents the issue and contributes to the problem. If the allegations are correct, the objection was not that the professor was advocating Christianity but that he was teaching creationism as science. If so, what he was preaching was not Christianity as such but a fundamentalist view of Christianity that denies the role of evolution in biology.
It is not difficult to present evolution in a way that is compatible with Christian belief. It is impossible to present creationism in a way that is compatible with science. Creationism is more accurately seen as anti-science. If indeed that is what he was teaching, then he might as well have been teaching that the earth is flat or the sun revolves around the earth.
Those beliefs are just as much in keeping with scientific principles and knowledge as creationism. Our students deserve better.