[PatrickHenry]

Just to pour oil on troubled fires:

The issue is really quite simple: Should someone be recommended for advanced scientific studies when he willfully sweeps aside a rational explanation of the evidence (perhaps even sweeping aside the evidence itself) and instead prefers to believe in miracles as providing a better account for the phenomenon in question? To me, anyone is free to believe anything he wants, but a successful career in science requires a rational mindset.

[Quix]

I find it irrational to presume that our relatively limited perspective(s) [in time and space] and relatively limited perceptual skills AND relatively limited perceptual apparati are sufficient to be remotely close to adequate for the starkly Inquisitional statements of belief evolutionists are so irrationally prone to.

IF there IS an irrational religion involved, it is the religion of science and/or the religion of evolution. Christianity by comparison is several orders of magnitude MORE rational and LESS faith based.