Yet another religious cult raided

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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?

A. If you're using FreeRepublic as a source, you're on shaky ground already.
B. The study of evolution is so integral to biology, a merely observational effort would be far less than the job required. It was in the job requirements. Can you really say he could do a competent job producing research if he thought half the background was wrong?
C. I have no idea what you're talking about with Mendel.

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

This is not an argument, it's an assertion based on your biases. There were plenty of reasons to deny his tenure. Real reasons, that have resulted in no tenure in other cases.

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?

Well, you may think we're not in the Middle Ages anymore. Sometimes I wonder ...

In any case your paragraph makes no point, nor seriously challenges mine. Why would Dini be restricted from requiring scientists to know science because great scientists were (or are) priests? There's no logical connection here.

The truth is, to make any sort of contribution to biology, geology, medicine, etc. you have to have at least a basic grounding in evolutionary theory. In addition, a Creationist mindset locks you out of doing anything useful in astronomy, physics and cosmology.