Christian Biologist fired for beliefs of evolution - Page 14

On December 14 2007 10:52 intotherei wrote:
nowhere in the article does it say he refused to do his job. he simply disagreed with the theory. i can disagree with something, but still do the job that it encompasses.

so people like mindcrime posting stuff like:-
Refusing to do a portion of the work that you were hired to do because of that lack of belief certainly makes you unfit."
are wrong in using that argument.


"Abraham, who was dismissed eight months after he was hired, said he was willing to do research using evolutionary concepts but that he had been required to accept Darwin's theory of evolution as scientific fact or lose his job."

edit: and i hope he wins

On December 11 2007 05:45 lugggy wrote:
It would be like a physicist claiming there is actually no gravitational force to his boss.

30 Muslim workers fired for praying on job at Dell

[...]

Big employers in the Nashville area have responded in drastically different ways to their Muslim employees' requests to slip away from their workstations for about five minutes to pray.

For example, Whirlpool Corp. chose last year to take a similar dispute before a federal jury, which agreed with the company that the employees' sunset-prayer request created an undue hardship on the La Vergne plant's production schedule.

According to leaders of Nashville's Somali community, Dell has been one of several area employers with strong histories of accommodating Muslim workers.

But that arrangement apparently came to an abrupt halt in February, with the firing of 30 workers. They were employed by Spherion, a labor agency that provides workers for Dell's Nashville operations, according to David Perez, the compliance officer for the Metro Human Relations Commission.[...]

On December 14 2007 11:00 intotherei wrote:


actually no, evolution isnt the fundamental central theme to all of biology.

the central dogma of biology is:

dna -> rna -> protein

On December 14 2007 07:22 triangle wrote:

Which ones? Theories may be modified, very rarely are they overturned. It takes a lot to be called a theory, that's a significant accomplishment.

Not wrong, incomplete.

Again, Newton wasn't "wrong". His equations are perfectly valid in normal situations. Einstein more provided an "exceptions to the rule" than anything else. To say Newtonian theory was "wrong" is incorrect. It was just incomplete. The basic equations were sound.

In the case of evolution, there may be elements missing. But the underlying idea will probably never be overturned.