Re: Wood Hole case

In article <y93bq7rzgl2.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cuthbert Thistlethwaite <nosillygods@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Allan Adler wrote: . . . They didn't say what his religion is. . . .

Christian

I'm also not sure but I thought they said the case was going to be heard by
the Supreme Court. Is that correct? . . .

Long way to go. Apparently recently filed in District Court in Mass.
Here is what I found about it: [sites deleted]

Thanks very much for answering my questions. I read the first of the sites.
So, this guy *didn't* have a PhD in biology. His doctorate was in philosophy.
He only had a master's degree in biology.

The article also mentions other suits of this kind, including an Iowa
State astronomer who claims he was denied tenure because he didn't believe
in evolution. There was also a University of Rhode Island student who got
a PhD in geosciences in spite of not believing in evolution. I wonder what
kind of work he is doing.

Today's (1/13/08) Boston Globe Magazine has a very sarcastic piece by
Charles Pierce to David C. Gibbs III, the lawyer for Nathaniel Abraham,
suggesting that he should immediately give up the case:

"Here's the secret, chief. _By and large, you usually lose these
things_. The last big one was the intelligent design case in Dover,
Pennsylvania, that your side lost so badly that the Republican judge
referred to the 'breathtaking inanity' of the case, which is language
you don't often get from judges... I'll say a prayer for you, David.
You clearly don't have one."

Pierce also pointed out, "I would like my developmental biologists to
believe in evolution for the same reasons I prefer my airline pilots to
believe in gravity."

Thanks --

David

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Impeach. Convict. Behead.

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