Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Page #3

to study evolution

In order to practice medicine,

The darwinists were quick

To try and exterminate

this new threat.

A lot of people

in a lot of blogs

Called me unprintable names

that were printed.

[laughs]

There were a lot of very,

very nasty comments.

Other people suggested

That people call

the university I work at

And suggest that perhaps

it's time for me to retire.

I realized when

I kind of went public

With my doubts

about the adequacy

of darwin's theory,

You know, that I would

encounter criticism.

What has amazed me

is the viciousness

And the sort

of baseness of it.

I'm an old guy.

I have tenure.

I'm academically safe.

But the young people

And what

is happening to them

in america right now

Because of this

scientism gulag

Is really terrible.

Apparently professor marks

Was not as safe

as he thought.

A few months

after this interview,

Baylor university shut down

his research web site

And forced him

to return grant money

Once they

discovered a link

Between his work

and intelligent design.

In order to attract grants,

you have to market yourself.

So you put up sites

and call yourself

"labs" and "groups"

and things like that

In order to get

visibility.

And in my entire

experience in academia

I never went

to any superior

And asked them

any permission

To put up

any of these labs.

So the fact that

this was singled out,

Let alone shut down,

is jaw-dropping.

It's astonishing.

I have never been treated

like this in my--

About 30 years in academia.

Shut up, you freak!

I said shut up!

[echoing]

it's a madhouse!

If you peel back

the onion,

I think that

there's no doubt

That the center

of this is my work

In what some would call

intelligent design.

Dr. Gonzalez:

people really get

emotional about this.

Whenever you say

"intelligent design"

in a room of academics,

Them's fighting words.

Creationists!

Astronomer

guillermo gonzalez

Found himself

in a fierce shootout

With iowa state university,

Following the publication

of his book

Arguing that the universe

is intelligently designed.

Despite a stellar

research record

That has led

to the discovery

of several planets,

His application

for tenure was denied,

Putting his career

in jeopardy.

I worried about my tenure

a little bit in 2005

When the petition

was being circulated

Because I viewed

that as a strategy

Of hector avalos

and his associates

To try to poison

the atmosphere

on campus against me

Because he knew I

wasn't tenured yet

And I was

very vulnerable.

I have little doubt that

I would have tenure now

If I hadn't done

any professional work

on intelligent design.

Dr. Gonzalez had

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