At 11:20 AM -0500 2/8/03, Al Shealy wrote:
As has been pointed out, a rejection of natural selection is strongly correlated with a rejection of the scientific method.>But of course that's completely irrelevant. The biology professor asked the students about their belief in evolution. He did not ask them about their religious beliefs.That's a convenient way of making yourself feel better about it; but we all know that beliefs about evolution are strongly correlated with religious beliefs. So we can excuse our discrimination while there's no evidence that students with these beliefs will be less successful in graduate school or practice.
If I'm discriminating, it is against a very specific religious belief with very real implications; not religiosity in general.
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