True Horizon

To follow up on my earlier post … Lest there was ever any confusion about the issue, a report in the May 26, 2007 issue of World magazine casts all doubt aside. Guillermo Gonzalez was denied tenure at Iowa State University because he has ties to the Intelligent Design community. The Discovery Institute has also weighed in on the issue here.

It is a sad day in America when the university — supposedly a bastion for the intellectual pursuit of truth — demands that all who enter adhere to a dogmatic list of beliefs that limits how that truth may be defined.

I wish Mr. Gonzalez the best with his appeal in the case but am sadly pessimistic about its outcome. But let there be no doubt; It is academic freedom, and the political freedom to which it is inevitably tied, that is really at stake here.