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I'm generally not aware of students' views on evolution; the subject comes up only infrequently in my teaching. But if I were aware an otherwise talented student had creationist views, I think I'd be obliged to mention it in the letter, and let the admissions committee make up its own mind.

Actually religion should be a requirement for practicing medicine. It is a well known scientific fact that faith heals and helps keep people alive. An atheist cannot heal the sick. As usual, the materialists have things backwards - and if you were in medicine you would not be saying that belief in God prevents one from practicing medicine.

An atheist cannot heal the sick.

You have documentation that the attentions of an atheist doctor have never been successful? Or are you using your own definition of atheist that seems to be totally different than any normally used definition wherein people (like Junior) who actually express belief in a deity are still branded as 'atheist' for reasons that only you seem to fully understand?

Actually religion should be a requirement for practicing medicine. It is a well known scientific fact that faith heals and helps keep people alive. An atheist cannot heal the sick.

See, I fight and I fight agains the urge to use Taliban comparisons here, and then Gore3000 posts something like this.

I consider creationists the single biggest impediment to conservatism on campus. A lot of scientists, engineers, and MDs are inherently conservative. But when I try to get them involved with organizations like NAS (which, AFAIK, has no position on evolution) they come back at me with attempts by creationsts to get 'equal time' in school, and ask 'how can you associate with fruitcakes like that?'. And I have to mumble it 's one issue from a large number of issues. But to a scientist, it's a very important issue. It betrays a rejection of the way we work.

As usual, the materialists have things backwards - and if you were in medicine you would not be saying that belief in God prevents one from practicing medicine.

Now you're simply fabricating again. My brother, BTW, a far more devout Catholic than I, is an MD. I can say a belief in God should prevent you from putting words in other people's mouths, but it apparently doesn't. That's a shame.