Chapter 219 - I Know More Than You About Life (1/2)

Chapter 219: I Know More Than You About Life

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Everyone looked over and saw a man in his thirties wearing sungla.s.ses stand up and question Chen Fan.

Many students from the Biology faculty recognized the man and some exclaimed.

“Isn’t that Mr. Du from the Biology department?”

Other students hurried to ask who Mr. Du was and they learned that he was one of the most outstanding instructors of the faculty. He was well known for his strident and outspoken character, even the Director of the college and been snubbed by him before.

His vociferousness had prevented him from being promoted to a.s.sistant professor despite the fact that he had already gained enough experience in teaching and researching.

“As we all know, Life Science is a branch of Biology. It focuses on molecular genetics to study the laws governing the life cycle and the nature of life. Its goal is to cure inheritable diseases, and gene defects using new drugs or improving the ecosystem.”

Instructor Du spoke calmly.

“However, Professor Chen had misunderstood such concepts and claimed that the purpose of Life Science is to improve and strengthen one’s life energy and enhance human’s biological features. This is equating the subject of Life Science with the study of Human Evolution. These two drastically different topics should never be put together. In layman’s terms, the real biologists are interested in curing inheritable heart disease while Professor Chen is claiming these heart diseases can be avoided by becoming a superman or spiderman.”

Everyone laughed out loud after hearing Instructor Du’s witty remarks.

Even many students who didn’t have a biology background agreed with him.

“Oh-shoot! So this visiting professor was now just pulling stuff out of thin air the whole time.”

“Life Science, and the Future of Pharmaceutical Research, hmm…. sounds legit but it’s just another way of saying pseudoscience.”

“Professor Chen won’t lie to us….”

The crowd boiled over. Some jeered at Chen Fan and some defended him. Most of Chen Fan’s supporters were girls who came just for Chen Fan’s looks. They cared very little about what Chen Fan was actually saying. The girl’s infatuation further fueled the male students’ anger toward the new professor.

“So you think it’s impossible?” Chen Fan stood next to the podium, unfazed by the challenge.

“Of course it’s impossible! Although there had been many people that believe in Qi the Soviet also conducted research for superhumans abilities, those were all as fict.i.tious as Hollywood superheroes such as Green Lantern, Spiderman, Hulk or what have you. However, Mr. Chen, Science is not a comic book, its serious stuff and needs to be carried out with scientific methods.” Instructor Du announced. “Natural evolution followed its own set of rules and no external force could change its pace and direction.”

Many students nodded in agreement.

The students of Jin City University were the best of the best in Chinese society. Unlike the uneducated ma.s.ses in the countryside who still believed in supernatural powers, they could think rationally and critically.

By then, the exchange started to cast a different light onto Chen Fan, making him look like a snake oil peddler.

Xue Jiao was sitting next to the podium and the smile on her face had long since evaporated. She didn’t expect to hear such outrageous theories and claims from Professor Chen either. Pseudoscience might be a benign topic for online communities, they were not meant to be shared with science professors and their students in a university cla.s.sroom.

“Ah-ah! Was I right or was I right! He is here just for show.” Some old professor heaved a sigh and lamented.

“Hehe, he knew nothing about biology and he tried to fool us with stuff he heard on the internet. What makes him worthy of being a professor?” Another young instructor piped up.

Han Dongyu was sitting at the back of the cla.s.s. He furrowed his brows as he suddenly felt that he had wasted his entire morning for this useless cla.s.s.

“What if I tell you that I have proof?” Chen Fan asked slowly.

“Proof?” Instructor Du laughed. “What kind of proof do you have? Do you have a pet G.o.dzilla or do you know Captain America?”

“Professor Chen, you should stop this nonsense right now, otherwise, more and more people are going to doubt your credentials as a biologist.” Instructor Du said with an edgy voice. “May I ask which university did you graduate from? Who is your advisor and how many research papers have you published?”

Instructor Du finally started to reveal his true intent.

He knew that if Chen Fan couldn’t offer a legitimate explanation, he would be kicked off the podium and became a laughing stock of the entire university. By then, Chen Fan would lose any hope of remaining in Jin City University much less teaching his fraudulent theory.

Everyone looked to Chen Fan expectantly, waiting for his answer.

Xue Jiao clenched tightly onto her notebook as many strong yet contradicting feelings clashed inside of her. Her heart wished Chen Fan could teach Instructor Du a lesson but her brain told her that Instructor Du was right. Biology is a science, not a superhero movie.

As the male students and instructors waited for Chen Fan to fall from grace, even the girls started to losing hope that Chen Fan would turn the tables.

However, Fang Qiong had a feeling that if Professor Chen really was the same person she met who could walk on the water, he would not be defeated by a group of academics.

“I have never studied biology.”

The crowd exploded after hearing Chen Fan’s remark.

“Sigh!”