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You mis-characterized one, Bill. It's not "Believe in Intelligent Design if you want tenure at Iowa State University. " It should read "Allow your belief in Intelligent Design to apparently suck up all your energy so you fail to meet the requirements for tenure after 7 years at ISU!"

Professor Gonzales failed to publish any applicable research, had only one grad student complete his dissertation (in SEVEN years), and only raised about 1/50th the average of the other tenure candidates. I work in education, his track record would cause tenure-interruptus anywhere in publicly supported schools.

The Discovery Institute is embarking on a Marketing campaign claiming some form of discrimination and academic freedom for Professor Gonzales, but I am hoping ISU sticks to its guns. Tenure is not a right, but a privilege after you meet the requirements. If he wishes to spend his time and energy on something that is not science, that's his right. It's also the right of ISU to refuse him tenure. I do find the discrimination part funny, after all the denials of a connection between religion and Intelligent Design made by the aforementioned Institute, to claim discrimination is hilarious. Even their release of out-of-context emails didn't seem to bring much interest. The Professor can go work at the Discovery Institute, or maybe if Liberty University (Jerry Falwell's house of pseudo-science) is looking for an Astronomer, other than then maybe Miss Cleo, Astrologer to the Stars, is in need of an apprentice.