A university without science? Humans can have genuine knowledge not based on science? These notions were stated as being a part of Christopher Wolfe's plans for a new university in an Oct. 9 article. Are you kidding me? That has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard!

A university, a center for higher learning, providing an education lacking scientific inquiry and scientific truth and seeking to attain "genuine knowledge" not based on science is like a sailboat seeking to circumnavigate the globe without the use of a compass, wheel, rudder, sails and even a crew.

I am sorry, but as a society, we need to move on from the belief that the Bible explains everything around us. This is an irresponsible and downright illogical belief. God does not control the earthquakes. God did not send Hurricane Katrina to New Orleans to punish innocent civilians because they accepted homosexuality.

Human life is living proof that our world is based on science. Human life can only be explained using scientific terminology and scientific means. You cannot blatantly discard scientific explanations for the world around us. Doing so would destroy the progress we have made as an intelligent society over the last several hundred years. Want to see what genuine knowledge not based on science gives you – ask Galileo.

He supported Copernicus' hypothesis that the earth was round and in fact not the center of the universe, unequivocally going against the stance of the Catholic Church and Scripture. (Only Thomas Friedman would today argue that the world is not round!)

Our buddy Galileo was threatened with excommunication and public shunning for not recanting his beliefs and finally gave in to the demands of the Church after being ridiculed and personally attacked.

Furthermore, if we did not use science to attain genuine knowledge, we would still live in a world that discards all scientific evidence and openly believes that the earth is roughly 6,000 years old (oh wait, our President and the majority of our population still believe that.)

In the first line of Marquette University's mission statement is a phrase that reads, "Our mission is the search for truth." I believe that every university in this country and around the world believes in this very same phrase.

To establish a university that provides an education to young men and women not based on scientific inquiry denies its students the ability to come anywhere close to sniffing the truth. The belief that humans can attain genuine knowledge not based on science is ludicrous. Don't believe me? Ask Galileo!