6 Quotes by Hector Avalos

By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh.

We want to make sure the public and the university start to voice their opposition to intelligent design.

He doesn't want to do it where he's asked questions about this by opponents, ... The nature of science is to submit your ideas for scrutiny.

We don't want to be known as the 'Intelligent Design University,' ... We don't think this is science.

Modern biblical scholarship has demonstrated that the Bible is the product of cultures whose values and beliefs about the origin, nature, and purpose of our world are no longer held to be relevant, even by most Christians and Jews.

Biblical scholars, for example, are almost solely devoted to maintaining the cultural significance of the Bible not because any knowledge it provides is relevant to our world but because of the self-serving drive to protect the power position of the biblical studies profession.