Someone's being a total dick here but it's not obvious from the article who - atm, I'm betting it's the uni. Presumably the paper was peer reviewd? You don't get fired for bad religion, you get fired for bad science - otherwise I'm on the streets with a placard.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.