Bryan College
Bryan College is a crazy place where you can get a minor in "Origins Studies."[1] The course work is as follows:
- BIB 215 Pentateuch
- HEB 211 Elements of Hebrew I
- BIO 314 Biological Origins (A course on both evolution and the YEC perspectives--interesting!)[2]
- BIO 317 History of Life
- Choose one Independent Research: BIO 400, LA 350, MATH 400, HNR 415
- Choose one elective: HEB 212 Elements of Hebrew II, BIO 345 Biodiversity & Biosystemstics, or other course approved by the director of CORE
Faculty at Bryan College have to sign a statement that "The origin of man was by fiat of God" and Adam and Eve "are historical persons created by God in a special formative act, and not from previously existing life-forms."[3]
Bryan College is located in Dayton, Tennessee, the town notorious for the Scopes trial having been held there, and is named for William Jennings Bryan, the lawyer for the pro-creationist side in that trial who had also been the Democratic nominee three different times for president in 1896, 1900, and 1908 on a left-wing platform of "free silver" and trust-busting (he lost all three times).
Bryan College was also the site of the Center for Origins Research (CORE). This "research" was self-published in its "CORE Issues in Creation" and "enCORE-Educational Notes of the Center for Origins Research." Because enrollment issues led to a budget shortfall, the college was forced to defund the center.[4] After looking for private funding, CORE was officially disbanded in favor of the Core Academy of Science, a non-profit group.[5][6]
[edit] Degree Programs
Majors
- Bible Studies
- Christian Ministry
- Biology (Note- on their Biology page is a bible quote)
- Business Administration
- Creative Writing
- Psychology
- Teaching
Minors
- Teaching
- Chemistry
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.bryan.edu/core
- ↑ The Bryan College catalog ( http://www.bryan.edu/catalog ), 2012-2013 ed.; p. 111.
- ↑ Blinder, Alan. "Bryan College Is Torn: Can Darwin and Eden Coexist?" New York Times 20 May 2014.
- ↑ http://www.bryan.edu/15013.html
- ↑ http://toddcwood.blogspot.com/2013/03/core-academy-of-science.html
- ↑ The new website is at http://www.coresci.org/