An astronomer seemed well on his way to being named the head of a University of Kentucky observatory. Martin Gaskell “quickly rose to the top of a list of applicants being considered by the university’s search committee. One member said he was ‘breathtakingly above the other applicants,'” The Associated Press noted.
But committee members got wind of his Christian faith and the fact that he questions some aspects of evolutionary theory. Some “worried his Christian faith could conflict with his duties as a scientist, calling him ‘something close to a creationist’ and ‘potentially evangelical.'”
Soon, he was out of the running for the job despite his qualifications.
Christians are often labeled hostile to science. But when a highly qualified scientist may have been denied a job for being “potentially evangelical,” who is being hostile to whom?