I did not know that the state can deny you a job based on your religious beliefs.
==I did not know that the state can deny you a job based on your religious beliefs.
The new priesthood is employed by the sate. They belong to the 1sr Church of Darwin. And they will stop at nothing to stamp out all rivals.
I did not know that the state could give you a job that allowed you to teach your religious beliefs as fact in a university.
They can't and they don't. Iowa State has a Christian Faculty and Staff Association with 120 members being the latest numbers I could find. None of them (except Gonzalez, I assume he is a member) has complained about unfair treatment.
Interestingly, 120+ is mentioned in the AP article: Two years ago, he was the unnamed target of a petition signed by more than 120 ISU faculty renouncing intelligent design as legitimate science.
Two years ago...they most likely wanted to go on the record as opposing ID because that was around the time that Kansas became a laughingstock.
From the AP article: The theory holds that the universe and living things are so finely tuned and complex, they must have been designed by a supreme, intelligent force.
Gonzalez said he's "very openly a Christian," but his theory isn't contingent on believing in a higher being or the supernatural.
Intelligent Design spin doctors say it's a scientific theory out one side of their mouths and claim it's a religious belief (as you did above) out of the other side.
The latter always with whining, cries of persecution, conspiracy theories, and in some cases smug warnings to those that don't buy into their "theory", of going to hell and burning in the Lake of Fire.