Creationist Fired

Nathaniel Abraham, a former researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has filed a lawsuit against the WHOI, which he claims fired him because he doesn't believe in evolution. This is kind of the reversal of the recent case of the Texas state science curriculum manager who was fired because she doesn't believe in teaching creationism in the classroom. Except, in that case, her convictions didn't interfere with the basic operation of her job. Abraham, on the other hand, was hired to work on a National Institutes of Health grant that required him to acknowledge the basic biological fact of evolution. He flatly refused to do the work, thus the firing. In other words, Abraham isn't so much a victim of ideological intolerance as he is a willfully ignorant douche. More details here.