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To: wallcrawlr
Gonzalez: The controversy over ID at ISU
150 posted on 09/30/2005 3:54:00 PM PDT by Heartlander (Please support colored rubber bracelets and magnetic car ribbons)
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To: Heartlander
In fact Gonzalez's only defense seems to be that his opponents are atheists. Of course, many of them are not, and so this is just an attempted slur.

I don't know what his problem is. He got tenure at ISU; he's released a movie and book on cosmology with a co-author who has made an idiot of himself publicly with his complete misunderstanding of the Special Theory of Relativity; and having injected himself into the public realm, he's now objecting there are people who have strong opinions contrary to his and are expressing them openly, just as he does. Has he been shouted down, or suppressed, told not to publish? Nope. In fact, Sigma Xi at Northern Iowa just invited him up last week to present his views. Granted, there were hordes of evolutionists there ready to ask him questions (several of which he flubbed), but what does he want? Unquestioning acceptance?

As someone who's been politically and outspokenly active in an unpopular area on campus for 20 years, I have advice for Gonzalez: stop whining.

168 posted on 09/30/2005 4:04:18 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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