In case there is still any doubt in your mind about whether universities practice what they preach and allow diversity of thought and practice tolerance of other ideas, here’s a nice example from Iowa State University (the school I’m currently attending to pursue an MBA).
Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez was denied tenure last June and was told by the University that he “simply did not show the trajectory of excellence that we expect in a candidate seeking tenure in physics and astronomy – one of our strongest academic programs.”
However, it has now been revealed that secret tenure deliberations were held and a large cache of emails have been released showing that there was a concentrated effort by other professors to sabotage his tenure candidacy based on Gonzalez’s belief in intelligent design, the idea that “life exhibits signs that it was designed and didn’t just spring into being out of nothing.”
An astronomer who doesn’t strictly adhere to Darwinian orthodoxy and leaves open the possibility that life may have been affected by their something-from-nothing model… can’t have that!
Diversity and tolerance at work on university campuses… and our tax dollars supporting it…
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Gonzalez failed to bring in 1/10th the grants of his colleagues, most of his money came from the pro-ID Discovery Institute to write a book that had little to do with real astronomy.
And remember that ID has failed to show any semblance to real science – something University Professors are paid to do. If you paid you’re janitor to clean and all he did was sweep it under the rug until it spilled out you’d fire him right?
Perhaps if he’d published papers he would have been worthwhile for ISU to keep.
Sources:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/12/04/silly-creationists-universities-are-for-scientists/
http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia/2007/12/the_disco_institute_has_a_pres.php
His grant garnering and publications were not reasons given by his colleagues in their emails and meetings. It was his lack of adherence to Darwinian orthodoxy. That’s intolerance. To say that a creator could not have had anything to do with our existence is not science either. It’s a faith that you adhere to. If it were science you could test it and get a repeatable result. Thus, you can’t prove it either way…