Yet another religious cult raided

[kandrathe]

Hehe. Your examples are not of the highest quality. Abraham was fired because he won't do the evolutionary research he was hired to do. It was in the job description. Would you keep a nuclear physicist on staff that denied the existence of the proton?

I don't think they tried to work with him on it. He worked for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on his passion Tiger Fish, not the Darwin Center for Evolution Studies on biological theory. Here is a more expository article; Abraham's test - Woods Hole fires biologist for not accepting Darwinism Would you say that Mendel was just good at growing peas?

Gonzalez is even worse. He was denied tenure. Not fired, just denied tenure. Maybe the fact that he did no original research on new topics since the got his current job, didn't graduate many grad students, and was pretty abysmal in getting grant money could have had something to do with that.

Maybe, or maybe he was discriminated against based upon his religious views.

In the Dini case, he asked for a scientific answer. It's not out of line for people expecting recommendations to a scientific position be required to give scientific answers. Freedom of religion is not an absolute excuse. To gain employment, you have to be able and willing to do the job. If your religious beliefs prohibit major parts of your job function, you don't get the job. Or would you prefer civil engineers who design bridges on the theory that angels will hold them up?

This is an entirely specious argument. Many of the worlds greatest scientists were also priests. Where do you think the "higher" in higher education came from? From the middle ages, universities were usually created by royal or ecclesiastical initiative. We are modern and enlightened now, so we can just leave that superstition behind, right? And... there are thousands of American Scientists who are contributing to their field AND they believe in Creationism. How can this be?