Astronomer Loses Job over Intelligent Design Views, Advocates Charge

Carolyn Hileman* | December 8, 2007

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(CNSNews.com) - An Iowa State University professor was denied tenure last April because he is a well-known advocate of intelligent design (ID), the Discovery Institute, a conservative organization based in Seattle, Wash., claims in its defense of the professor. He also apparently was the target of a secret, organized effort to oust him concocted by fellow faculty members.

Intelligent design is a theory that life exhibits signs that it was designed and didn’t just spring into being out of nothing.

Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez is being defended by attorneys as well as the Discovery Institute, and they asked the Iowa State University Board of Regents Monday to reconsider the university’s refusal last summer to grant the assistant professor of astronomy a lifetime appointment on the faculty.

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