Al Shealy wrote:
> If the letter of rec. is supposed to be our estimate of a student's
> ability to perform in graduate school or as a professional, religious
> beliefs should ONLY be relevant if they are indeed correlated with
> graduate school performance or professional performance. Where is the
> evidence that religious beliefs are correlated with either of these? And
> where is the evidence that people who don't believe in evolution can't (or
> don't) perform as well in non-theologically oriented counseling programs?
>
> Surely you have data to support such beliefs, right Paul?
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. Shall we question whether a student's beliefs about
science are correlated with the student's ability to perform in a graduate
science program? I personally think that's ridiculous. If we were to find
graduate "science" programs in which students' scientific knowledge and
beliefs did not predict their performance, I'd direct my skepticism at those
programs, not at the admissions criteria.
Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
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