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a-okTopic: Random Political Diatribe
Follow the dots:
Marine biologist is hired on to a respected institute...
Marine biologist is put on with a group examining the evolutionary aspects of zebra fish...
However, marine biologist dissents, based on his flat-out rejection of the process of evolution (not just Darwin's theory of natural selection, mind you, but the whole God-d@#ned process...)
and then? Well, marine biologist gets fired, naturally.
Yeesh. I love the tenants of religious freedom as much as the next guy, and as a matter of fact this guy is being fired for his religious beliefs...
but I absolutely, positively gotta side with the institute on this one, based on the facts as I know them (ie: based on the info I got from briefly scanning this article...)
Look: what are you gonna do, huh? This is like that fiaso a while back with those self-righteous Muslim checkers at Target who won't handle ANY pork products (in wrappers and packaging, mind you...) or the (again...) Muslim cabbies who refuse to transport people in their cabs if they're carrying ANY alcohol in their luggage...
There was even one infertile-crescent-lover who even kicked a blind fare to the curb because of the passenger's seeing-eye dog.
Nice...
Of course, I needn't point to just these examples: should a PETA activist be greenlit for a job in a slaughterhouse? (Wherein they might poison the meat with some noxious chemical... I'm serious...) Or should His Humble Lord of Lucidity Richard Dawkins be appoited to serve in the Vatican? For that matter: should a Catholic priest be appointed to host a Boy Scout retreat?
...hehehe: kidding, kidding...
...yeah... *sigh*
anywho: my point is that an acceptance of the process of descent with modification and the tenants of the Central Dogma of Biology seem to be a REQUIREMENT for this job. In every other example I've cited, the person in the job should be fired forthwith, as their attitudes or actions clearly are incompatible with carrying out the job that THEY WERE CONTRACTED TO PERFORM.
...my only caveat is that this IS a firing based on religion, and one I support. However, in many of the above examples (mostly the Muslim ones...) the perpetrators were not fired, but coddled:
If your religion goes so far as to make you incapable of performing a certain task that is REQUIRED of you then you must, I repeat MUST, seek employment elsewhere.
For the record: Shane wholeheartedly accepts the scientific research on evolution (and if YOU don't, then you deserve to have an old-line antibiotic the next time you go into the hospital... then we'll see where you stand...)
...I'm smart enough to know that the poetic Hebrew words used to designate a 'day' in Genesis mean anything from an hour to an aeon.
I suggest you go take a Bible study class, prof...
