At Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, denying evolution is a top priority for science professors, who are "dedicated Christians who affirm students in the faith ... and encourage them to evaluate all things from a Christ-centered perspective."
Liberty University’s College of Arts and Sciences website (also the source of the quotation above) describes the College’s educational philosophy in a message from the Dean, Dr. Roger A. Schultz.
"Each department is committed to an integration of faith and discipline, showing how Biblical presuppositions and a commitment to Christ govern research and teaching."
The school is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award degrees in science programs including biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, nursing, psychology, engineering, health sciences and kinesiology. It offers both undergraduate (B.A., B.S., B.M., B.S.N.) and graduate (M.A., M.S.N., Ph.D.) degrees.
The university’s Academics web page starts by declaring its commitment to academic excellence, then explains "The Liberty Difference: Liberty’s professors integrate a Christian worldview into every subject area. This biblical foundation is the cornerstone upon which we build academic excellence. Our faculty … join Liberty only after completing a rigorous interview process that confirms a born-again relationship with Christ …"
David DeWitt, a professor of biology at Liberty and director of the school’s center for creation studies, teaches both biology and creationism and says that Liberty leans toward "young-Earth creationism," which holds that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old.
Johnnie Moore, Campus Pastor, notes that Liberty prides itself on teaching creationism, which is a required course for all students.
"One of the distinguishing factors of Liberty is that every single student here takes a class called creationist studies," Moore said. "It’s kind of at the core of our identity."
DeWitt, uses the movie "March of the Penguins" to illustrate the biblical point that "The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong; nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all" (Ecclesiastes 9:11).
According to DeWitt, who equates natural selection with "survival of the fittest," it is chance and not natural selection that causes one penguin to be eaten, rather than another.
"Which penguin gets eaten? The one that’s genetically inferior, or the one that’s in the wrong place at the wrong time? ... Molecules-to-man evolution is incompatible with the creationist account in the Bible," says DeWitt. Read the source article here.