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(Yahoo)   NASA computer engineer files suit against the agency saying he was fired for believing in "intelligent design". NASA says they didn't fire him for what he believed but because he wouldn't STFU about it and GBTW   (news.yahoo.com) divider line 12
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2012-03-12 01:37:44 PM
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BurnShrike: And while I can understand non-discrimination laws, there's a difference between letting someone believe what they believe and letting someone distribute creationism DVDs in the office.

I'm very careful about this where I work. I'm an atheist but I only hand out blank DVDs when some one asks for one.
2012-03-12 12:57:50 PM
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2012-03-12 02:32:29 PM
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madgonad They imagine the moments before creation going something like this:

Yahweh: Hey Asherah, hold my beer and watch this...


The concept of an omniscient, omnipotent dumbass drunk deity is oddly comforting.
2012-03-12 12:41:19 PM
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vartian: Christianity: Doubt is weakness. Never apologize.

I thought that was Cobra-Kai? But then I'm always getting those confused

"for verily i say unto you: Sweep the leg"
2012-03-12 02:39:53 PM
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2012-03-12 02:18:04 PM
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Cheron: BurnShrike: And while I can understand non-discrimination laws, there's a difference between letting someone believe what they believe and letting someone distribute creationism DVDs in the office.

I'm very careful about this where I work. I'm an atheist but I only hand out blank DVDs when some one asks for one.


IT'S STILL A DVD!
2012-03-12 02:04:32 PM
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brigid_fitch: Ah, didn't make that distinction. They're Theistic Evolutionists, not Creationists. They believe that the initial spark of life was God's intervention but everything from that point is a matter of evolution, adaptation, and natural selection.

Yup, they are Deists. They imagine the moments before creation going something like this:

Yahweh: Hey Asherah, hold my beer and watch this...
2012-03-12 12:44:03 PM
1 votes:
Bevets: In March 2009, Coppedge said, a co-worker complained that Coppedge harassed her by offering to lend her the intelligent design documentary "Unlocking the Mystery of Life." Intelligent design is defined by Wikipedia as "the proposition that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.''

Coppedge attributes his demotion and termination to religious discrimination and retaliation. However, according to JPL, Coppedge lost the team lead due to ongoing conflicts with Cassini customers, court documents state.

The plaintiff was "kept a prisoner of JPL's systemic ideological culture'' and constrained in his ability to express his views on ID, religion and politics,'' the court documents say.

Being stripped of his team leadership position was "embarrassing, degrading and humiliating,'' Coppedge claimed in court documents.

William Becker, an attorney with the nonprofit Alliance Defense Fund is representing Coppedge. Becker told the La Cañada Valley Sun that his client was punished for his Christian beliefs.

"They don't have a policy against discussing religion and politics, so they essentially singled him out. He was forbidden from doing something everybody else was allowed to do," Becker was quoted in the Valley Sun article.


My work doesn't have written policy against showing up naked or taking a dump in the microwave, but I'm pretty sure I'd be fired if I did either. Especially if I'd already done it once and been taken aside and warned not to do it again
2012-03-12 12:38:25 PM
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In March 2009, Coppedge said, a co-worker complained that Coppedge harassed her by offering to lend her the intelligent design documentary "Unlocking the Mystery of Life." Intelligent design is defined by Wikipedia as "the proposition that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.''

Coppedge attributes his demotion and termination to religious discrimination and retaliation. However, according to JPL, Coppedge lost the team lead due to ongoing conflicts with Cassini customers, court documents state.

The plaintiff was "kept a prisoner of JPL's systemic ideological culture'' and constrained in his ability to express his views on ID, religion and politics,'' the court documents say.

Being stripped of his team leadership position was "embarrassing, degrading and humiliating,'' Coppedge claimed in court documents.

William Becker, an attorney with the nonprofit Alliance Defense Fund is representing Coppedge. Becker told the La Cañada Valley Sun that his client was punished for his Christian beliefs.

"They don't have a policy against discussing religion and politics, so they essentially singled him out. He was forbidden from doing something everybody else was allowed to do," Becker was quoted in the Valley Sun article.
2012-03-12 12:23:57 PM
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FlashHarry: well, in order to be a "scientist," you must believe in science. "intelligent design" is superstition, not science. therefore you aren't a scientist. QED.

Yeah, but he was true to his religion, he wasn't going to let the science man keep him down. He wasn't about to be binded by science.
2012-03-12 11:18:36 AM
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vartian: The guy insisting that they change the name of the holiday parry to suit his individual religious needs never imposed his beliefs on others.

He's a Christian. He's incapable of realizing that he's imposing his views on others.
2012-03-12 11:17:27 AM
1 votes:
Christianity: Doubt is weakness. Never apologize.
 
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