Associated Press
12-03-07
Group Accuses ISU Of Conspiracy, Deceit
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Advocates for Guillermo Gonzalez claim Iowa State
University employees engaged in conspiracy and deceit to wrongly deny tenure
to the assistant astronomy and physics professor, who supports intelligent
design.
The Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank, said it has thousands of
internal e-mail messages and other documents showing Gonzalez lost out on
tenure because of his views. The group got the documents through Iowa's open
records law.
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The theory of intelligent designs holds that the universe is so complex, it must
have been designed by a supreme, intelligent force.
Gonzalez was denied tenure in May, and the ISU president denied an appeal in
June.
Advocates want the Iowa Board of Regents to reconsider Gonzalez's tenure.
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