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To: lasereye
You would hesitate to hire Dr. Russell Humphreys, a nuclear physicist at Sandia National Laboratories who has had over 20 articles published in scientific journals

If I were on a search committee in nuclear physics, a candidate's creationism wouldn't weigh too much on my mind, other than to make me wonder what other odd ideas he might believe in. It's irrelevant to the area of research, and at Sandia, he's not going to be teaching freshman students. If the hire were in chemistry (my field), which is closer to biology, a creationist job-seeker would worry me more; such views would be an absolute prohibition, IMO, if the hire were in biological chemistry. As someone else pointed out, you wouldn't hire a Bible-teacher who was an atheist.

By the way, 20 papers isn't exactly productive; if you're looking for a Research God who's a creationist, shoot for a couple of hundred.

Most of the people you cite are similar nonentities. The one exception I'd make is Henry Schaefer, who's a real quantum chemist, and probably has several hundred papers. I can't imagine why he's making what I consider uninformed pronouncements so far outside his field, but he's a bit of a gadfly in it as well.

Damadian, by the way, is a fruitcake who tried to use the courts to steal credit for inventing MRI from its real inventor, Paul Lauterbur . I'm pretty well informed on the details of this case: I succeeded Lauterbur at SUNY Stony Brook. Paul, while a great scientist, is a bit of a slob, or at least his group were slobs; you could practially trace the evolution of his idea from the debris in his lab!

689 posted on 10/10/2002 7:04:39 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
If the hire were in chemistry (my field), which is closer to biology, a creationist job-seeker would worry me more; such views would be an absolute prohibition, IMO, if the hire were in biological chemistry.

I'm curious, what is it that you might happen as a result of having a creationist biologist, who has proven his knowledge and understanding of biology beyond a doubt, doing research? And don't say if they believe in evolution, they don't understand biology. I'm talking about understanding biochemistry, the various mechanisms by which organisms function and reproduce, DNA, etc.

698 posted on 10/10/2002 8:01:19 AM PDT by lasereye
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To: Right Wing Professor
If the hire were in chemistry (my field), which is closer to biology, a creationist job-seeker would worry me more; such views would be an absolute prohibition, IMO, if the hire were in biological chemistry.

Seems to me Mendel was a priest and he is one of the greatest lights in biology. In addition to which, biology has shown quite well that evolution is totally impossible so it is evolutionists that perhaps should be excluded. All these evo scientists do is make up stupid theories instead of doing real research. Where would we be in biology if the evolutionist's stupid claim that the 95% of DNA not in genes was junk?

Science, real science is open to all questions. It cherishes debate. You obviously are a very bad scientist if you are a scientist at all. Science has no truck with ideologues like yourself.

870 posted on 10/11/2002 4:13:02 AM PDT by gore3000
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