No, he is a state employee and as such he is constrained by the US Constitution. Surely there is academic freedom in deciding who to give a recommendation to but when you run afoul of the constitution in the manner you suggest your academic freedom ends.
Of course, Dini could have gotten off the public payroll and stood by his principle that any doctor not adhering to Dini's loyalty oath can not be a good doctor but pragmatism won out over principle.
Such is life.
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I'm sorry, I don't understand . . . how did he violate the constitution?
He also won't give a letter unless he knows the person well, as he states there. And he could choose to only give a letter to someone from a given city, or any other requirement he wants -- it's a *PERSONAL* letter of reccommendation.
It is a letter that uses his personal reputation to reccommend someone. It is not a 'University' matter, as I understand it.
Am I mistaken?
A quote from the article, referring to ID proponents:
####Its proponents argue life on Earth is too complex to have evolved on its own.####
This raises the inevitable point of contention. Let's assume for the sake of argument that the theory of evolution is correct and we evolved to where we are today from micro-organisms. If that occurred, did it occur "on its own", or did God control it? If it's the latter, then it's design. If it's the former, then how can you believe it and still have faith in God? We're often told here that we can be a Christian and still believe in evolution, yet the same people who tell us that insist that evolution occurred "on its own" and that it would have occurred exactly the same way whether God exists or not.
Have to run, be back later....