RE: Then that institution being the leader of the modern ID movement makes anybody suspect of any work in the area.
What a person does OUTSIDE of the academe should be his own business.
He should be judged BASED ON HIS WORK WITHIN THE ACADEME ITSELF.
Did he teach well ? Did he publish peer revieiwed papers ?
Is his research cited by other peers ?
*THAT* should be the criteria.
If what they did to Gonzalez were done to men like Isaac Newton, who wrote books on Biblical Prophecy and even wrote a number of religious tracks, a lot of great and interesting science would have been thrown by the wayside.
They join the DI in a professional manner. In doing so they've also agreed to bias their scientific work should it have any conflict with the Bible. It definitely should make people suspect of their claims and work. In any case the decision about Gonzalez was made purely on the academic merits, or rather the lack thereof. I listed the reasons that would have anybody denied tenure regardless of religious beliefs.
If what they did to Gonzalez were done to men like Isaac Newton
Newton refused to play god of the gaps. Newton also removed a superstition (religion) from the science itself. He believed God designed all the mechanics, but his mechanics had to hold up absent any reference to the supernatural.