The assumption that a creator would have made us perfect and left it at that speaks of spiritual prejudice or rigidity. What would be the meaning in a world in which we were formed as perfect robots without the potential to continually engage in new acts of creation? We seem to be here to learn, to grow, to evolve. The world's religious texts make that clear.

Spencer Wells was fascinating to hear, and I admire his work, but if he lacks understanding of theology, he shouldn't pretend that he doesn't.

Thank you for this great show tonight. I know you are primarily a program about the arts. Tonight's presentation shows how scientific creativity and thinking is indeed an art. It takes great leaps of the human imagination (such as Darwin's) to allow the sciences to progress.
William Malmstrom, Clearwater, FL

Spencer Wells assets that Darwin did not understand Mendel's work. Apparently Darwin had Mendel's publication on his shelf but the pages were uncut. If this is so it is quite possible that he had not seen Mendel's thesis. In general the story of human evolution is much more tentative than presented.

Sincerely,
William Allison