Darwinism and its dissidents

As another creationist has been hounded out of university employment, I feel the need to say a few things about the case.

Quotes and comments;

1. 'For daring to question evolution, an astronomer who was the best qualified candidate to become director of a new observatory lost out. “No one denies that astronomer Martin Gaskell was the leading candidate for the founding director of a new observatory at the University of Kentucky in 2007 – until his writings on evolution came to light,” a report on Courier-Journal reported. [1.]

- Aren't universities supposed to be the home of free speech?

2. 'Gaskell’s lawsuit, however, claims that “UK officials repeatedly referred to his religion in their discussions and e-mails” as the real reason. One astronomy professor, for instance, “feared embarrassing headlines about Kentucky’s flagship university hiring a ‘creationist’ in a state already home to the controversial Creation Museum.”

- The crew that set about denying Gaskell his rights, are the real embarassment... but are so full of venom they can't see it. What ever happened to academic freedom, and the right to free speech, and the right to hold different views on things? Apparently these people don't find their own disgraceful behavior embarassing.

- The people who denied Gaskell his rights, tried to equate his views with the young creationist views of Ken Ham, when in fact he's an old earth creationist of the Hugh Ross variety.

- His creationist worldview offers no impediment to his being able to engage in astronomical studies (no more than being a Christian negatively affects one's ability to read and write). The arguments used against his employment are utterly specious, and everyone knows it. (Too bad no Darwinist has the decency or integrity to say so.)

3. 'Three biology professors and a geology professor also hammered that theme, that hiring Gaskell would be a “disaster” and an embarrassment to the university...'

- The real disaster is that people like these (atheists) are allowed to hound people out of the university scene. Don't any of them find it ironic that the crowd who still whines about Galileo, goes about engaging in this kind of harassment and attack?

4. 'Gaskell’s academic opponents worried about his denial of evolution, and his support for intelligent design. “UK biologists said in their e-mails that evidence for evolution was so overwhelming that Gaskell had no scientific basis to raise questions about it.”

- The job in question is director of an observatory for goodness sake. This has nothing to do with the biological theory of evolution. This is a joke, and we all know it.

- The claim there is no 'scientific basis' for raising questions about M2M evolution is a pile of manure (or bullshit, to use the more scientific term). I just finished watching a 24 lecture series on the origin of life with Robert Hazen, and he himself admits no one has a clue how life forms evolved from inert matter. No one knows how that theoretical first organism emerged.

There are a million theories to be sure; but speculation is cheap, and supply exceeds demand. OOL people have no idea where complex, specified information comes from. They have no idea how matter can write code. They have no idea how mutations can create complex new organs.

- That there are are no questions about the viability of evolutionary theory is a farce. I've studied this subject in detail for many years, and I've discovered that there are many more questions than answers. It's too bad more people can't be honest about this.

Notes;
1. Best Qualified Candidate Expelled Over Views on Evolution, Design Creation/Evolution Headlines 12/11/2010
Dec 11, 2010 — For daring to question evolution, an astronomer who was the best qualified candidate to become director of a new observatory lost out. “No one denies that astronomer Martin Gaskell was the leading candidate for the founding director of a new observatory at the University of Kentucky in 2007 – until his writings on evolution came to light,” a report on Courier-Journal reported.'
- In my opinion, universities that engage in such egregious behavior should lose their tax support.
2. Interested readers might want to read 'The slaughter of the Dissisents' by Jerry Bergman
- On most campuses you are literally not allowed to disagree with secular orthodoxy. If you want to go your own way, you will soon be sent to the sidelines, and eventually sent home. (For some reason this only seems to apply in matters of evolution theory and christian faith. This is an oddity that I'm sure is purely accidental.)