University humiliated over persecuting Christian for using sound science

[musterion]

It's what the story amounts to.

http://christiannews.net/2016/10/10...nging-evolution-awarded-financial-settlement/

“In the paper, I just presented the factual data,” Armitage said. “The only conclusions I drew were that ‘This needs to be investigated further. We have a lot of work to do.’”

Other scientists at the university were not pleased with Armitage’s discovery, evidently thinking that he was trying to promote evidence against evolution. His supervisor reportedly stormed into his lab on one occasion and shouted, “We will not tolerate your religion in this department!”

On Feb. 27, 2013, CSUN fired Armitage.

“Suffice it to say,” Armitage, who is an evangelical Christian, explained, “some people in the department didn’t appreciate [the soft tissue discovery], and somehow they seemed to work a way to have me very quickly removed from my position.”

 

[6days]

Wow... I had forgotten about that case. I think it had been mentioned before in the Enyart channel?
Interesting that he was fired for presenting data (Not opinion) that upset evolutionists.
Awarded about 15 times his annual salary!

 

[ok doser]

:mock:stoopid evolutionists

 

[musterion]

Odd how certain threads never get spammed by atheists.

 

[Jose Fly]

I tend to agree with the gist of this article...

https://www.insidehighered.com/news...lab-manager-who-said-he-was-fired-creationist

....which basically makes the point that it looks like CNSU staff did indeed make the issue about Armitage's religion rather than the science. That sort of thing is unacceptable. I also agree with Jerry Coyne, who argues that in the future, when a creationist on staff starts making young-earth creationist arguments, "just adjudicate the science alone". IOW, if you're going to let him go, do so because of issues related to his poor science and steer clear of any mention of his religious beliefs.

 

[6days]

I tend to agree with the gist of this article...

https://www.insidehighered.com/news...lab-manager-who-said-he-was-fired-creationist

....which basically makes the point that it looks like CNSU staff did indeed make the issue about Armitage's religion rather than the science.

Actually, your article says "Armitage published his findings in 2013 in Acta Histochemica, a peer-reviewed journal, leaving out his interpretation of the tissue’s age. But he engaged students he was training in a Socratic dialogue about the possible age of the horn -- one of whom enthusiastically shared the conversation with a faculty member in the biology department, according to the suit. The professor allegedly entered Armitage's office and said, “We are not going to tolerate your religion in this department.”

It would seem that the religion here was that of whiny faculty member who didn't want academic freedom.