On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 04:20:21 -0700 (PDT), wf3h
wrote:

On Oct 4, 5:36*pm, JohnRant wrote:

Why should students not be told of the beliefs of others?

None of the famous scientists have explained why only one species has
the ability to reason. Please don't compare porpoises to man.

sure they have. check out the concept of 'spandrel' that stephen jay
gould and other developed...

Actually, I like his analogy to arched bridge spans. When you think
about it, his concept of architectural imperatives in evolution rather
than adaptive selection (the Darwinian model) make some sense in the
abstract.

However, to get bring this back to the original point, Gould also
believed that science and religious faith are two seperate concepts.
As Brother Consolmagno said - "If people have no other reason to
believe in God than that they can’t imagine how the human eye could
have evolved by itself, then their faith is very weak.” One can have
faith in a Creator and still believe in the science of evolution.

Or Aliens. :)