Ah, groups of busybody Christian lawyers with apparently very little to do: do you love them as much as I do? "Biology Prof's Evolution Requirement Prompts Justice Dept. Inquiry". The professor posted on his website that "students wanting a letter of recommendation for postgraduate studies [must] 'truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific answer' to the question of how the human species originated." From the article:

Mr. Spradling [the complaining student] said that given the professor's position, there was "no way" he would have enrolled in Dr. Dini's class or asked him for a recommendation to medical school. "That would be denying my faith as a Christian," said Mr. Spradling, a junior raised in Lubbock who plans to study prosthetics and orthotics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. "They've taken prayer out of schools and the Ten Commandments out of courtrooms, so I thought I had an opportunity to make a difference."

That poor victimized Christian youth! The next thing you know, physics professors will be requiring students to accept wave-particle duality! That's crazy! The photoelectric effect and the double-slit experiment? It don't make no folksy anecdotal sense to me, so it ain't true! Okay, all picking on hillbillies aside, does this article reveal a Bernard Goldberg or Ann Coulter-style liberal media bias? You'll notice that I changed the story's headline from the one the Times gave it, which was "Professor's Snub of Creationism Prompts U.S. Inquiry". It wasn't "Professor's Championing of Common Biological Knowledge Prompts Justice Dept. Witch-Hunt". It was a "snub". Those ivory-tower tyrants are at it again, and the whole of the United States is inquiring into the matter. Promptly. And I don't necessarily see where the professor is requiring students to personally believe in evolutionary theory. As mentioned above, the article quotes his website as saying that students wanting a letter of recommendation "'truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific answer' to the question of how the human species originated." Right. So when someone who knows nothing about biology (like a new student) asks them how life on earth got to where it is today, they should be able to answer, honestly and without hesitation, by describing the best and most widely and professionally accepted, validated and supported model, which has become known in its shortest description as evolution. This is what I would require of my graduating students as well. If I were certifying an M.D. in immunology and bacteriology, and I asked him what causes disease, I would prefer he not answer, "Evil spirits." If he wants to personally and privately belief that evil spirits cause disease, great. When confronted with a sick person, however, I would need him to be able to diagnose and treat them based on the current understanding of germ theory. And, in an official capacity, not mention anything about evil spirits to the patient. Mr. Spradling might also have some issues when it comes time to study prosthetics and orthotics, as he plans to do. If God had wanted those people to have a complete set of arms and legs, he would have made them that way. Does the New York Times reporter betray a liberal bias?