From Boston.com, The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has fired a guy for not working on a project that he was hired for because it dealt with evolution. The courts will decide this.

The thing that I have trouble understanding is these ultra-Christians that spend the time, effort and money to get advance degrees in the sciences. And willfully remain ignorant of the basic science they are studying. To me this seems that they would have no passion for the subject that they are studying. For me when I read about some new thing that they uncovered about bacteria, I become enthralled by the need to get the details of this neat, new discovery. The idea that there is a stunting of curiosity, where the wonder of the universe is shunted aside by dogma, when curiosity should soar boundless, is just wrong.

For me science is magic. From the tiniest bacteria to the spiraling of gases in deepest space, there is a beauty and a beating of the heart that is indescribable. The recent hypothesis about the origin of life is an example. Mica may have acted as cell walls, where advanced organic chemistry could have taken place, leave me breathless.