# College Professors - are you on the watch list?

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**Created:** [July 12, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-professors-are-you-on-the-watch-list/791059 "2017-07-12T01:52:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-professors-are-you-on-the-watch-list/791059/85 "2017-07-14T17:51:11Z")

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> [@Ask the previously 'quiverful' girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-previously-quiverful-girl/702705/168):
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> And why not mention God? We all know religion has played a part in science both good and bad. Also why not examine the possibility of some devine intervention in nature?

Why not examine the possibility that aliens are messing with our climate?

There has to be some minimum standard as to what constitutes science. With your standard we’d have to teach all kinds of unsupported ideas. We’d be badly misrepresenting the nature of the scientific enterprise to people we’re supposed to be educating about it.

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