Dissenting views will not be tolerated.

Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix reported.

LAWSUIT: University Fired Scientist For Finding Soft Tissue on Dinosaur Horn

Self-described creationist scientist Mark Armitage filed a lawsuit against California State University Northridge this week, claiming he was fired by college officials after he discovered soft tissue on a triceratops horn and published his findings.

The lawsuit alleges religious discrimination and wrongful termination, with Armitage claiming in court documents that after his surprising discovery – which supports a young Earth theory – university officials went on a successful “witchhunt” against him.

Armitage, who has some 30 publications to his credit and is past-president of the Southern California Society for Microscopy, was hired by the university in early 2010 to manage a wide variety of oversight duties for the biology department’s array of state-of-the-art microscopes, court documents state. He also trained students on how to use the complicated equipment.

In the summer of 2012, while at the world-famous dinosaur dig at Hell Creek Formation in Montana, Armitage discovered the largest triceratops horn ever unearthed at the site, according to his attorneys in a statement.

“When examining the horn under a high-powered microscope back at CSUN, Armitage was fascinated to see the soft tissue,” stated lawyers with the Pacific Justice Institute, which represents Armitage.

According to the lawsuit – a copy of which was posted on the CBS Los Angeles news website – the discovery sent shock waves through the Cal State Northridge community.

“The finding of soft tissue in a triceratops horn, complete with bone cells that look alive, was shocking to many in the department of biology … because such cells would have decayed into nothingness 65 million years ago,” the suit states. “Since some creationists, like plaintiff, believe that the triceratops bones are only 4,000 years old at most, plaintiff’s work vindicated his view that these dinosaurs roamed the planet relatively recently.”

The lawsuit contends that that discovery was the beginning of the end of Artimage’s employment at Cal State Northridge, with one university official storming into his office in June 2012 and shouting: “We are not going to tolerate your religion in this department!”