Group Accuses ISU of Deceit in Tenure Dispute

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By Becky Ogann

Story Created: Dec 3, 2007 at 12:29 PM CST

Story Updated: Dec 3, 2007 at 12:29 PM CST

DES MOINES (AP) - Advocates for Guillermo Gonzalez claim Iowa State University employees engaged in conspiracy and deceit to wrongly deny tenure to the assistant astronomy and physics professor, who supports intelligent design.

The Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank, says it has thousands of internal e-mail messages and other documents showing Gonzalez lost out on tenure because of his views. The group got the documents through Iowa's open records law.

The theory of intelligent designs holds that the universe is so complex, it must have been designed by a supreme, intelligent force.

Gonzalez was denied tenure in May, and the ISU president denied an appeal in June.

Advocates want the Iowa Board of Regents to reconsider Gonzalez's tenure.

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