More Deutsche Dodging

You gotta love this. George Deutsche continued his dodging in an interview with the New York Times. Here's my favorite line:

"When I left college," he said, "I did not properly update my resume. As a result, it may appear misleading to some. However, I was up front with NASA about my undergraduate status when they hired me."

Apparently he thinks that on a resume, you put in all the stuff you hope to accomplish later and then delete them if you don't before you send it out. He also says that the email demanding that the word "theory" be appended to "big bang" every time it was mentioned on a NASA website was just his own opinion sent to a fellow Christian, not a directive:

In an e-mail message, Mr. Deutsch said that remarks about religious views on the creation of the universe sent last October to a Web designer working on a presentation on Albert Einstein were "personal observations" and never were reflected in the material that was posted online.

"We are both Christians, and I was sharing with him my personal opinions on the Big Bang theory versus intelligent design," Mr. Deutsch wrote to The Times. "What I said about intelligent design did not affect the presentation of the Big Bang theory in the subsequent Einstein Web story. This is a very important point, because I have been accused of trying to insert religion into this story, which I was not trying to do."

First of all, the Times noted that this email actually instructed the web designer on what words to put in, so the notion that it was just a "personal opinion" is nonsense. Second of all, this still doesn't excuse his abysmal ignorance in thinking that the big bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion" or the fact that no one who would make such a ridiculous comparison should be in any position at a scientific agency. I say this guy still has a future in politics. He's already mastered the art of confidently asserting the truth of a transparent lie.