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Though I make no apologies about being an advocate of intelligent design, if what Ted says is true about Professor Gonzalez, then this prof who was turned down tenure of Iowa State NOT because of his stance on intelligent design, but because he didn't do his job well.
Here are Ted's comments -
"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."
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One of the most important things we can do if we want to have any credibility at all is to do our jobs well.
Does anybody else have any insight on this case?
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