This is a little article that I found rather interesting, a guy who is a biologist was fired from his lab and he claims it's because he openly admitted believing in creationism.
For those who do not want to read the whole article, the main idea is that a scientist who was working at the Woods Hole research center in Cape Cod, which studies how aquatic animals respond to chemical contaminants by examining ". . . mechanisms from a comparative/evolutionary perspective."
He claims that he was asked to resign by his superiors after admitting not believing in evolution. He also claims that he asked to switch projects to get a project which does not involve evolution, which he was denied because at Woods Hole everything is related to evolution. In the end he did resign and he claims that it was a very traumatizing experience, yet when he was hired he did not think of telling everyone that he did not believe in what they were studying.
My favorite part of the article is:
Eugenie C. Scott, executive director for the National Center for Science Education,
which defends the teaching of evolution in public schools, said Abraham was clearly being disingenuous when he applied
for the job because he was hired to work in the field of developmental biology.
"It is inconceivable that someone working in developmental biology at a major research institution would not be expected to deal intimately with evolution," she said. "A flight school hiring instructors wouldn't ask whether they accepted that the earth was spherical; they would assume it. Similarly, Woods Hole would have assumed that someone hired to work in developmental biology would accept that evolution occurred. It's part and parcel of the science these days."
I absolutely agree with this statement, how could a biologist possibly work on evolution and not believe in it?
It's just too crazy! But this kind of problem can possibly be a starting point for new kinds of job interviews for
jobs/doctorates related to subjects like evolution where religious beliefs will not be able to be forgotten.
