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Creationist fired for failing to evolve
Posted by Fired Fred on December 10, 2007 2:16 PM
If you were afraid of heights, would you take a job washing windows at the Empire State Building?
If you were a vampire, would you apply for work at a crucifix factory?
I know I avoid jobs that might have me do things I'd really hate. Sometimes jobs turn into ones you hate, and someone comes along to fire you just to let you know they hate you back.
This Nathaniel Abraham person took a job as a biologist at someplace Wired says is pretty important when it comes to doing marine research. Nathaniel didn't buy into the whole evolutionary aspect of the job...
"The overall objective of research in our laboratory is to understand the biochemical and molecular mechanisms that underlie the interactions of marine animals with their chemical environment. Our general approach is to examine these mechanisms from a comparative/evolutionary perspective...."Dude? WTF? Why would you take a job that requires you to buy into the whole scientific fact thing? Oh well, at least he didn't file a lawsuit...
Only after he was hired did Abraham mention that he didn't believe in evolution and didn't want to work on evolution-related research. Hahn asked Abraham to resign. He left in December 2004.
Abraham took his case to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, which ruled against him in April of this year. His new lawsuit, filed in federal district court on November 30, claims violation of his rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and asks for $500,000 in damages.Civil rights? I'm not the country's foremost historian or anything, but I really think the civil rights movement involved something else, like not creationism, ok?