Scientist alleges religious discrimination in Ky.

Associated Press ^ | December 17, 2010 | DYLAN LOVAN

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – An astronomer argues that his Christian faith and his peers' belief that he is an evolution skeptic kept him from getting a prestigious job as the director of a new student observatory at the University of Kentucky.

Martin Gaskell quickly rose to the top of a list of applicants being considered by the university's search committee. One member said he was "breathtakingly above the other applicants."

Others openly worried his Christian faith could conflict with his duties as a scientist, calling him "something close to a creationist" and "potentially evangelical."

Even though Gaskell says he is not a creationist, he claims he was passed over for the job at UK's MacAdam Student Observatory three years ago because of his religion and statements that were perceived to be critical of the theory of evolution.

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Is this a veiled Battlestar G. reference? Matrix perhaps? Terminator?

Perhaps influenced by any or all of these.

What I wonder is looking at the evidence we have been able to accumulate since Darwin first made his theory known is that evolution didn't happen very slowly, over long periods of time. It happened in starts and spurts usually on a global scale many times due to great "disasters" of biblical proportions.

What if the evidence we have of physical "evolutions" actually started in the spiritual dimensions and the physical is just the manifestations of a spiritual push.

Perhaps what we are interpreting as evolution is actually God's hand in motion?

What if, as images of that same God, we are doing it a bit to ourselves and when we are ready, thrust into the physical the result of a spiritual and understanding breakthrough?

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"Life is not about having and getting. It is about being and becoming." Unknown (I used to think it was George Bernard Shaw but it may not be)