Francis Beckwith Denied Tenure
Francis Beckwith, a pro-Intelligent-Design scholar, was recently turned down for tenure at Baylor University. I am frustrated that despite some noise in the blogosphere, nobody is seriously discussing whether his scholarly work was up to Baylor standards or not. Thus, I don’t know whether to be upset. One can see from his website that he has quite a number of books and articles, but that doesn’t mean much. I don’t see journals that I know are high-quality. He says that he is a philosopher. I doubt he’d get tenure in a philosophy department, but he’s not in one; he’s in some kind of special, small, religious studies department. I wish somebody would evaluate his quality, instead of just saying he is pro-ID and therefore stupid, or has published a lot of printed pages, and is therefore brilliant. For info, see World, and the American Spectator, and Agapepress.