Suit: NASA specialist axed over intelligent design!

[yortsed snacilbuper]

The National Center for Science Education, which rejects intelligent design as thinly veiled creationism, is also watching the case and has posted all the legal filings on its website.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_INTELLIGENT_DESIGN?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=NATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[Politicalboi]

1. One of my ex's worked at JPL

She called it Just Plain Lazy. And she also worked on the Cassini, but that was in the 90's. They had every right to fire him. JPL claims it was just a lay-off, and now he is complaining because he knew he was a pain in the ass. They should have fired him over handing out his blather on the job.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. Some people just can't STFU and GBTW.

Persecuted, no doubt.

[Permanut]

3. Good catch, Yort, K&R

These clowns, and the rest at the Institute for Creation Research - Hamm, Austin, et al - also conflate evolution with geological and astronomical timelines. For example, I just finished watching a video (found it at a thrift store for a buck) wherein Steve Austin claims that the eruption of Mount Saint Helens challenges evolution " to its core". Whatever the hell that means.

It's mind boggling that anyone involved with space projects could figure out how the light from a galaxy like Andromeda, 2.6 million light years away, arrived here in 6,000 years. I think the fallback is always something like "God works in mysterious ways", but that's a pretty crappy excuse for science.

Disclaimer: I'm a member of a Lutheran church.

[exboyfil]

4. I read the respondent's brief to the suit

They will have a long paper trail to show, if anything, they allowed the harassment to go on far longer than it should. Could you imagine what these people would be saying if the tactics used were by a Muslim, Mormon, or a fan of Dawkins?

I kind of hope the ID bunch latch their fortunes to this case. It will be like another Kitzmiller.

I was troubled by the last couple of days with a billboard posting for Promise Keepers at my work. I noticed it is down now. If the timing had different, I would have been tempted to put up a poster about our local university's Darwin Week next to it.

I did notice the Promise Keepers poster has been removed. The interesting thing is that my wife very much wants me to go to the Promise Keepers, but I am happier taking my daughters' to science and history lectures instead.