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Exactly. Not believing in evolution is the sort of irrational thinking, of believing what you want to believe, that gives us the Clintons.

In labs, they stress bacteria and grow resistant strains all the time. Anyone with access to a lab could do it in a few weeks. Experiments that tend to support natural selection are done all the time.

That said, one shouldn't have a litmus test, but diclosing in a recommendation that the student is someone who puts faith above science is relevant to a program that would admit him.

In labs, they stress bacteria and grow resistant strains all the time.

But the question is how they grow them. They grow resistant by changing a gene to be less specific than before. This hurts them in normal circumstances but helps them in the special circumstances of the experiments. The bacteria are less fit than normal ones as a result of the mutation.

More importantly though, no one has seen a bacteria or a virus or a fly change into another species with different more complex abilities ever, and that is what the theory of evolutin requires in order for it to be true.