A former NASA employee who was fired last year is suing the space agency, claiming he was let go because he believes in intelligent design, according to news reports.

The employee, David Coppedge, was a computer specialist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and served as team leader for the Cassini orbiter mission around Saturn. He was demoted in 2009, and eventually lost his job in 2011, after 15 years of working on the mission.

Coppedge is now claiming he was wrongfully terminated, based on the fact that he talked to co-workers about intelligent design and passed out DVDs espousing the philosophy at work.

Intelligent design is the idea that life is simply too complicated to have arisen through chance and evolution, and must have been created by an intelligent force, such as something we'd today refer to as "God".

Most US science organizations, such as the National Center for Science Education, classify intelligent design as a religious belief rather than a scientific theory.

	1. 13-03-2012 05:54
	Intelligent design vs Darwin In the past 1000 years much has transformed. The belief in intelligent design was considered 'normal', people were very spiritual. In the past priests were bright mathematicians, philosophers, chemists, scientists and the "Church" was a gathering place used to educate the masses.    Today, Churches are great money generating businesses which is why you can see them in a shopping centre near you. Guest

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