Creationist scholar receives big settlement

_{Denyse O'Leary

October 5, 2016

Creationism, Culture, Intelligent Design, Legal}

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Fired after discovering soft dino tissue.

From Jennifer Kabbany at College Fix:

A creationist scholar recently received a six-figure settlement from California State University Northridge, a payout that resolved a 2-year-old lawsuit that alleged the scholar had been fired after discovering soft tissue on a triceratops horn and publishing his findings.

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Armitage, who has some 30 publications to his credit and is past-president of the Southern California Society for Microscopy, was hired by the university in early 2010 to manage a wide variety of oversight duties for the biology department’s array of state-of-the-art microscopes, court documents state. He also trained students on how to use the complicated equipment.

In the summer of 2012, while at the world-famous dinosaur dig at Hell Creek Formation in Montana, Armitage discovered the largest triceratops horn ever unearthed at the site — complete with soft fiber and bone tissues that were stretchy.

He published his findings, first in the November 2012 issue of American Laboratory magazine, which published images of the soft tissue on its cover, and then online in February 2013 in the peer-reviewed journal Acta Histochemica, according to court documents.

The lawsuit contends that’s why Armitage’s employment at Cal State Northridge was terminated, with one professor allegedly storming into his office and shouting: “We are not going to tolerate your religion in this department!” More.

It seems that Armitage’s religion had come up with some evidence the U didn’t want to have to face, let alone rebut. Perhaps he can use the money wisely.

But science today is under pressure at the highest levels to turn away from evidence-based reasoning and falsifiability. When all you do is work for the Man, all you need to do is fill in the paperwork, right?

More from College Fix.

See also: Nature’s sneery summary of creationist fossil hunter Mark Armitage’s wrongful dismissal suit against California State U

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Triceratops: The star of the show (kind of goofy but maybe accurate)

Comments

Queries @1: “What’s forgotten here is that Armitage deliberately and blatantly violated scientific ethics! ________________________________________________________________ To destroy true scientific evidence, is allowing dark forces to triumph over true scientific investigation. By ignoring good scientific common sense evidence, like being unable to make a monkey from a none-monkey etc., etc., etc., is blatantly and deliberately applying a constricting iron band around the heads of students to make them see common (descent) sense; humans come from non-humans. Or by almost universal blind faith in common descent, dark forces of injustice prevail, similar to those used by the Soviet Union to brain wash and persecute. Both ID and creationism have felt the force of such measures. For example: Jerry Bergman: http://www.icr.org/article/book-review-slaughter-dissidents/ http://crev.info/2016/10/mark-armitage-wins-legal-victory/ including David Coppedge, thanking the Discovery Institute for their support in his discrimination case relating to Intelligent Design. And, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10545387/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/judge-rules-against-intelligent-design/#.V_ZQfCQ8Yso It would seem that ID must be included for deliberately violating scientific ethics! “Troubled and confusing times,” is what humans have come to by believing in evolutionism. Like begets like, monkeys only beget monkeys is a true science; experimentally sound, proved in the field, verifiably and conclusively proved true elsewhere. Confused ethics and times indeed.mw_{October 6, 2016
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I can understand CSUN's consternation because the very inconvenient data Mr. Armitrage found is very difficult to answer from an evolutionary perspective. In fact, at this point, there is no answer. (except for a 2 year experiment that shows that iron from blood has some preservation capacities. But that is hardly enough evidence to justify extreme extrapolation into 70 million years worth of preservation power.) It reminds me of the joke where a patient comes to see a doctor and says "Doc, I have a problem. I'm dead." The doc says "No your not. I'll prove it to you. Can dead men bleed?" The guy says "No, of course not." Whereupon the doctor proceeds to prick his finger and draw blood. He says "Look you are bleeding!" The guy answers and says "Well, what do you know! Dead men can bleed!" It's like evolutionists saying "Well, what do you know. DNA and soft tissue CAN be preserved for millions of years." That idea goes against everything we know about DNA and soft tissue, but age is a non-negotiable for evolutionists. Without that, their theory is blown out of the water and completely destroyed.tjguy_{October 6, 2016
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Querius at #1 That is an excellent tirade!InVivoVeritas_{October 5, 2016
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Correction. I said the triceratops was 28,000 years, but, according to carbon dating, it's 33,000 +/- 3,000 years.bb_{October 5, 2016
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Good for Mark! I love this guy and saw him speak last year. He is the first to submit dinosaur tissue to a medical lab to perform a standard chem-20. His results were fascinating. He also carbon dated his find to 28,000 years at most. Here's a video about the settlement from Mark's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuGfMG9TDKA This might be an earlier instance of the same presentation that I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqDV_MTQSxgbb_{October 5, 2016
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Querius @1, LOL!Vy_{October 5, 2016
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What's forgotten here is that Armitage deliberately and blatantly violated scientific ethics! In order to keep his job, he simply needed to destroy any evidence that was not compatible with the current scientific narrative. As a result of his irresponsible actions, he caused deep embarrassment to CSUN, potentially opening up the university to ridicule, which could threaten critical funding. In a case like this, it's not unthinkable that Armitage should be banned for life from any contact with educational institutions or impressionable children under 24 years of age. Furthermore, it's not unreasonable that his punishment should include incarceration for the social disruption and severe mental anguish for which he was clearly culpable. Likewise, the judge in this case should be impeached for not being able to distinguish between the anti-discrimination rights legally granted to minority religions and Armitage's fundamentalist creationism that he hid under the guise of real science. The damage that he has caused is incalculable, but the scientific community needs to draw together in these troubled and confusing times. Doing so will once again allow science to triumph over the dark forces of superstition and coercion. ;-) -QQuerius_{October 5, 2016
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