I know lots of scientists - most are not atheists.
“The e-mails brought to light a secret campaign among the other Iowa State faculty to deny Gonzalez tenure because of his belief that science shows proof of an intelligent designer of creation, and his refusal to follow a strictly Darwinian atheism.”
Before you IDers get worked up - we don’t know what happened, only how the Discovery Institute, who I don’t find to be trustworthy, said. We don’t see the emails. THe article just characterized them. Does he use his class to prostheletize? I don’t think there’s room for that in a science classroom!
How about this characterization - Someone stole a private email discussion about a guy up for tenure, and made it public without the permission of the conversation owners. How were the emails obtained? Were laws broken in obtaining them? DId they really represent a conspiracy, or just a conversation between people in no position to make the decision on his tenure? Maybe there are other reasons he wouldn’t get tenure? Who knows.
Lifesite usually carries great pro-life news stories. I wish they wouldn’t inject themselves into this unrelated debate!
Agree on all counts.
This rehash is just a hook on which to hang a movie blurb.
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/050811_scientists_god.html
Nearly 38 percent of natural scientists — people in disciplines like physics, chemistry and biology — said they do not believe in God. Only 31 percent of the social scientists do not believe.
In the new study, Rice University sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund surveyed 1,646 faculty members at elite research universities, asking 36 questions about belief and spiritual practices.