A Good Ol' Fashioned Christian Beating

A message from the Christian right (the pugilist sect) to people of the enlightenment: a "Christian right-hook-to the-jaw."

Creationism-as-myth professor beaten

LAWRENCE, KANSAS -- A college professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design was canceled after he derided Christian conservatives said he was beaten by two men along a rural road.

University of Kansas religious studies professor Paul Mirecki said the men referred to the class when they beat him Monday on the head, shoulders and back with their fists, and possibly a metal object, the Lawrence Journal-World reported.

"I didn't know them," Mirecki said of his assailants, "but I'm sure they knew me."

Messages left on Mirecki's cell phone were not immediately returned.

Police said Mirecki reported the attack just before 7 a.m.

Mirecki planned to offer a spring course called "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies" after the Kansas Board of Education decided to include more criticism of evolution in science standards for elementary and secondary students.