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But if professor’s wish to force students to think only "inside the box" in science or medicine we have bigger problems in our education facilities than you may believe. A student that has a different interpretation of the facts and wishes to persue that line of investigation, should be welcomed in our individualistic society. Communism failed.

If a student can memorize and regurgitate the materials presented by the professor with a high enough degree of accuracy, the student should receive a recommendation on their merits.

But if professors begin to believe they have a right to dictate how the student subsequently uses that knowledge in their practice, or their potential new employer round files the students resume because it lacks a Letter of Recommendation from the professor of the students major, we would be giving our conservative job futures into the hands of a bunch of liberals.

Intelligent design by a Creator is not completely without merit. Evolution is a best guess theory that cannot explain many facts that are observable. i.e. A spider has oil glands in its legs that allow it to walk on the sticky substance coating its web. Either its web couldn't catch a thing (lacking sticky substance) while the spider evoluted oil glands on its legs or the spider got trapped by its web but was infected by the evoluted oil gland virus, spontaneously enabling it to escape.

If professors force students to ignore these problems in order to receive letters of recommendation God help this world. Mastering a professor’s material should be the only criteria for recommending the student.

You'll probably get jumped on for the spider example as many features can be posited to have served some other purpose in earlier iterations. The problem comes when you look at the math involved in the "arrival of the fittest." Natural selection can do survival of the fittest just fine, but it can't generate a single more fit organism, nor will it be merciful to the millions of unfit that have to be simultaneously generated with the more fit organism if this factor is truly driven by random mutations (duplications, what have you).

A student that has a different interpretation of the facts and wishes to persue that line of investigation, should be welcomed in our individualistic society.

You are employing the same logic as the liberals who are against the teaching of spelling, or who believe that there are no wrong answers in arithmetic.

Sorry, but evolution is basic biology, just as the fact of an ancient, expanding universe is basic cosmology. You cannot substitute your feelings for science and expect scientists to accept that as equally valid.

Suppose a math student asked for a recommendation from a professor, after insisting that pi=3, based on his interpretation of the Bible? Should he be "forced" to "think inside the box"? Or should the professor be compelled to ratify his choice, by being required by law to sign his name to a statement he doesn't believe, praising the student's grasp of mathematics? Was Galileo required to do much more than this?

"nor will it be merciful to the millions of unfit that have to be simultaneously generated with the more fit organism if this factor is truly driven by random mutations (duplications, what have you)."

(Meaning by this, the species is going to overwhelmingly far more likely drive itself into the ground. Go extinct. Bye bye. SO much so, that it would be surprising that any life exists at all if it had to have this kind of origin.)

Political Science professor refuses student Letter of Recommendation because he voted for Bush, clearly this student didn't master the tenets of what makes a competent politician.

Law professor refuses student Letter of Recommendation because student is pro-life not anti-life, clearly this student didn't honor the tenets of out great law creating system.

Sociology professor refuses student Letter of Recommendation because student believes spanking a child for correction is not a violation to the child that only produces negative results.

Medical professor refuses student Letter of Recommendation because student tells other student the cadaver was a tent for the soul, clearly student fails to recognize that life is brain waves a heart beat and nothing else.

Maybe sweeping streets isn't so bad after all.