Hiring Creationists
I was having a conversation with a co-worker today about creationists. She had seen some discussions on an online forum that was trending toward the anti-intellectual and she was talking about how infuriating it all was. This got me to thinking about whether or not I could legally get away with asking someone's view on evolution during a job interview. I'm sure I would get my ass sued off, but why? It has nothing more to do with religion than asking someone about their views on open source software. What if open source software is against their religion? That's their problem.
Ah, but what does it have to do with his ability to do the job? That's what's important. If I'm hiring a person for a job that requires a certain amount of logical thinking and problem solving, doesn't their complete disbelief in evolution (without being able to logically argue against it) make their qualifications suspect? It doesn't matter if the reason some portion of their logical thinking is deficient just happens to be religion. I'm not discriminating against them on the basis of religion, just their lack of qualifications.
It reminds me of an episode of the Simpson's. This may just mean that I've been spending too much time with Matt lately. In the episode Homer gets the tree house rebuilt by the Amish. They also do the wiring. Homer: Who knows more about electricity than the Amish?
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