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Joined: Mar 2008
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In a discussion of the movie [i]Expelled[/i] we find I suspect that the movie will talk about the tenure denial for Guilermo Gonzolez, an astronomer I once met. He was denied tenure because he was widely known to believve in ID. Having been laid off because of my former YEC beliefs, I think that such behavior towards people who had made an impact in their fields stinks. Indeed, I think that the appeal of the movie is precisely that it exposes a form of thought control on the part of academia. It seems that conformity of thought is the rule of the day in academia--I have even seen it aimed at a politically conservative Ph. D candidate I know. The left is as bad at enforcing conformity as they fear the right is.
No one can accuse me of being pro-YEC and I think their ideas silly, but I am also against religious discrimination and the thought police.
Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm"To Compel A Man To Furnish Funds For The Propagation Of Ideas He Disbelieves And Abhors Is Sinful And Tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?" - Thomas Jefferson
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