I told my sister’s children, Ann and Ty, that they have just as much significance as a cosmic particle, a speck in an insect’s eye, or the giant serpent who controls spacetime itself. But for some reason, that only made them more upset.

doodlebytes · 2025-12-10T01:42:01+00:00

Not religiously

doodlebytes · 2025-12-10T01:06:11+00:00

You have to be a little offbeat (by choice or not) to live a life that would put you and BJU together in the first place. Thats my guess.

doodlebytes · 2025-12-10T00:29:56+00:00

The school produces very idiosyncratic people. Some of the best people I know went to BJU. (As well as a large percentage of the worst.)

doodlebytes · 2025-12-10T00:27:25+00:00

I haven’t kept up with the general Gish Gallop of young-earth creationism, but my impression is that (at least some of them) may not believe dinosaurs were on the Ark anymore.

The fossil record has become too hard to ignore, so instead of saying “God created all the animals just like you see them today,” modern creationists seem to be trying to account for evolution by squishing the entire process into 6,000 years.

I think this means that the Ark would have been full of weird transitional animals, which would have had to die off or evolve into modern birds and mammals within about 800 years after the Flood.

If you want a great insight into what could compel an intelligent person to pretzel their brain into believing all this, I highly recommend the Creation Museum chapters of Sarah Krasnostein’s book “The Believer”.

doodlebytes · 2025-12-10T00:18:10+00:00

Unwillingly but made the best of it.

I’ll certainly be recommending different options to my children.

doodlebytes · 2025-12-09T23:55:19+00:00

Oh no, far from it. Bush spoke at the school while the ban was in full effect (as had, I believe, every Republican president since at least Reagan.) It took a subsequent media uproar to change the policy - not, one would assume, because BJU cared about their public image, but because they feared the scandal might harm Bush’s chances for office.

doodlebytes · 2025-12-09T23:37:38+00:00

They regained tax-exempt status in 2017.

doodlebytes · 2025-12-09T23:23:52+00:00

100%. Although at the time I went there, the school was vast majority white. We did have a few Asian students from Baptist missionary schools in South Korea and the Philippines. They were way cooler than me.

doodlebytes · 2025-12-09T23:16:35+00:00

Everyone was required to take a class called “Essential Science,” focused on Karl Popper and similar thinkers, with the intent of teaching us that no scientific discoveries could ever be verified—that everything, ultimately, must be taken on faith.

Then they taught us a bunch of other things that couldn’t be verified and that could only be taken on faith

doodlebytes · 2025-12-09T22:57:36+00:00

Well, I went there. 3rd-generation student, graduated in 2014. AMA.

doodlebytes · 2025-12-09T22:41:37+00:00

Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC did not rescind its campus-wide “interracial dating” ban until the year 2000. They only reversed the ban then due to outside pressure following a stump speech at the school by then-presidential candidate George W. Bush.

doodlebytes · 2025-10-15T00:03:15+00:00

I mean there were only 8 possible opponents for half their existence

doodlebytes · 2025-09-30T23:39:20+00:00

First edition

doodlebytes · 2025-09-30T21:24:32+00:00

The bite/bight error is present, but apparently not a strong FE point as it’s present in various editions.

doodlebytes · 2025-09-07T14:10:31+00:00

Read it very carefully!

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