[asa] DI Professor: 'Religion' behind tenure dispute

If any of you would like to present what you think is "the other side
of the story", as requested by this poster (#8), I'll be glad to copy
and paste your reasoned response in the thread below. ~ Janice

Poster #8 says:

"I wish the article had presented the other side of the story so we
can at least understand the rationalization. More, the reporter
offers no reference to state constitutional, statutory, or university
regulations which might control." 8 posted on 07/13/2007 11:53:29
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nathanbedford http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865407/posts?page=8#8

Professor: 'Religion' behind tenure dispute
World Net Daily ^ | Friday, July 13, 2007 | Staff Writer
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Intelligent Design scientist faults university evolution ideology

A scientist who believes the theory of intelligent design helps
explain life's origins is appealing to state officials to save his
job at Iowa State University, where his tenure was rejected because
of his "personal religious and ideological beliefs."

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John West, associate director of the Discovery Institute's Center for
Science & Culture, where Gonzalez is a senior fellow, said the tenure
denial is "clearly a result of the vicious attacks he's had to endure
from Darwinists and various atheists for presenting a scientific
argument for the intelligent design of the universe based on the
empirical evidence from physics and astronomy."

Gonzalez, who will be out of his job at ISU after the 2007-2008 year
if the decision is not changed, was rejected by officials despite his
publication of 68 peer-reviewed scientific articles, nearly four
times what his own department suggests as a standard for "excellence."

His articles also have the highest normalized citation count among
all of the astronomers in his department, a standard used to evaluate
the work of professors.

"Incredibly, ISU's President Geoffroy denied tenure to Gonzalez while
approving 91 percent of those applying for tenure this year," said
West. "Geoffroy even promoted to full professor one of Gonzalez's
chief persecutors at ISU, atheist religion professor Hector Avaloz,
who believes that the Bible is worse than Hitler's Mein Kampf."

The day after ISU's president announced his rejection of Gonzalez's
first appeal, a member of ISU's department of physics and astronomy
published an article in the Des Moines Register openly admitting that
Gonzalez's support for intelligent design was the only reason he
voted against tenure for Gonzalez.

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Gonzalez has said he does not teach intelligent design at the school.

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