Tribune reporter Brian Maffly's article on Charles Darwin could lead a reader to believe that Brigham Young University's and the LDS Church's "teachings seem incompatible with Darwin's idea" of evolution ("Why can humans run great distances? U. biologist asks," Tribune , Feb. 9). Not so.

A 1931 letter from the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints declared: "Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one of which has to do with the salvation of souls of mankind, to scientific research."

Why should anyone allude to controversy when there is none? And why did an LDS state senator draft a bill in the 2006 legislative session to teach intelligent design or creationism in our schools, which is not only contrary to the LDS position but is not good science?

Clarke Lium

Salt Lake City