The battle between science and creationism has reached the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where a former researcher is claiming he was fired because he doesn't believe in evolution.
Nathaniel Abraham filed a lawsuit earlier this week in US District Court in Boston saying that the Cape Cod research center dismissed him in 2004 because of his Christian belief that the Bible presents a true account of human creation.
Abraham, who is seeking $500,000 in compensation for a violation of his civil rights, says in the suit that he lost his job as a postdoctoral researcher in a biology lab shortly after he told his superior that he did not accept evolution as scientific fact.
In a 2004 letter to Abraham, his boss, Woods Hole senior scientist Mark E. Hahn, wrote that Abraham said he did not want to work on "evolutionary aspects" of the National Institutes of Health grant for which he was hired, even though the project clearly required scientists to use the principles of evolution in their analyses and writing.
You know I would compare this to a man hired to wash windows on a high rise who refuses to do the job because he has acrophobia (fear of heights). I mean the guy could not claim discrimination because his problem makes it impossible for him to do his job.
So even though this Abraham fellow clearly has a mental deficiency he cannot claim discrimination.
I mean what if I was hired to teach Sunday school and refused to talk about Jesus or God because I was an atheist? Do you think they could legally fire me?
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Reminds me of the pharmacists that refuse to fill birth control scripts because it violates their beliefs.
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