CTA's 2nd Brief & Response to Plaintiff's 1st Brief - National Center ...

Case: 09-56689 07/26/2010 Page: 22 of 80 ID: 7418245 DktEntry: 45-1
maintain political entities.
In a lecture on deductive reasoning, from which Farnan draws many purported
examples of anti-religious hostility (Plaintiffs Opening Br. 14- 18(b)-a)), Dr. Corbett
told his AP Euro class, "Aristotle was a physicist. He said, 'no movement without
movers.' And he argued that, you know, there sort of has to be a God. Of course
that's nonsense. I mean, that's what you call deductive reasoning, you know. And
you hear it all the time with people who say, 'Well if all of this stuff that makes up
the universe is here, something must have created it.' Faulty logic. Very faulty
logic." (ER 15, pp.304-05.) Dr. Corbett told his class, "Contrast [the scientific
approach] with creationists. They never try to disprove creationism. They're all
running around trying to prove it. That's deduction. It's not science. Scientifically
it's nonsense." (ER 15, p.3 12.) Farnan drops the following sentence from the middle
of his selective quotation of the transcript from that same lecture (Plaintiffs Opening
Br. 14(b)): "If there are two points of view, it's incumbent upon the scholar to
recognize if one point of view is rational and generally supported by evidence, and
the other point of view is not . . . ." (ER 15, pp.293-94.) Later in the lecture, he
continued, "We get a few mentally ill, anti-semitic, narrow-minded critics who
believe that the Holocaust didn't happen, you know. It would be insane of me to give
them the opportunity to put forth their nonsense to a bunch of teenagers. It's part of