Professor: 'Religion' behind tenure dispute

A scientist who believes the theory of intelligent design helps explain life's origins is appealing to state officials to save his job at Iowa State University, where his tenure was rejected because of his "personal religious and ideological beliefs."
Guillermo Gonzalez is appealing his case to the Iowa State Board of Regents after university officials turned away his request for reconsideration.A story in World Magazine quoted professor Eli Rosenberg, chairman of the physics and astronomy department at the school, insisting intelligent design "was not an overriding factor" in the decision but that it "played into" the process.Proponents of intelligent design say it draws on recent discoveries in physics, biochemistry and related disciplines that indicate some features of the natural world are best explained as the product of an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. Advocates include scientists at numerous universities and science organizations worldwide.World magazine also reported astronomy professor Curtis Struck said he was not surprised by the denial, because Gonzales "includes some things in his astronomy resume that other people regard as taking a coincidence too far." His reference apparently was to the issue of intelligent design.Gonzales also was targeted earlier by ISU faculty members, who in 2005 drafted a statement and petition against intelligent design in the science curriculum. It collected 120 signatures....
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