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Different Take on Evolution vs. Creation
RECEIVED Sun., Feb. 1, 2009
Dear Editor,
I had to write after reading the "On the Lege" column [News, Jan. 30] on the board of education meeting on evolution vs. creation and tell you how I feel about this topic.
I don't for a single moment believe that a white-haired and bearded old man called God created man and everything else just as we see it today. Nor do I believe that life on Earth evolved through blind chance and natural selection alone. I have a theory that there is a program at the subatomic level of matter that learns over vast amounts of time to evolve complex forms of life. Man himself has evolved his technology from its primitive state in the 19th century to its highly “evolved” state today. And it was through man's ability to think creatively and his ability to do complex math that got us to where we are today. There isn't a single thing that a mechanical or electronics engineer can build without crunching the numbers, using everything from simple math to very complex equations. I'm sorry to inform the overly egotistical and self-assured college professors that blind chance and natural selection can't do complex math, nor can they think creatively. Nor can they run complex biological programs.
You know there are scientists such as microbiologist Michael Behe who believe that the cell is an irreducibly complex form of life that can't have possibly evolved but instead had to be created. I don't agree with him, and I'm sure many microbiologists don't either. Two scientists I saw on PBS years ago said they made their colleagues hopping mad at them for saying that DNA has a written program in it and that a program requires a programmer. I would like to see dissident scientists like them invited to these debates to kind of round them out a bit and hopefully confuse things further and put it on TV for all to see the madness take place. I had a feeling that the staunch evolution hard liners don't want to acknowledge that their wayward colleagues even exist. Nor do they care to hear what they have to say. Egos run high everywhere from science to show business. Amen.
I had to write after reading the "On the Lege" column [News, Jan. 30] on the board of education meeting on evolution vs. creation and tell you how I feel about this topic.
I don't for a single moment believe that a white-haired and bearded old man called God created man and everything else just as we see it today. Nor do I believe that life on Earth evolved through blind chance and natural selection alone. I have a theory that there is a program at the subatomic level of matter that learns over vast amounts of time to evolve complex forms of life. Man himself has evolved his technology from its primitive state in the 19th century to its highly “evolved” state today. And it was through man's ability to think creatively and his ability to do complex math that got us to where we are today. There isn't a single thing that a mechanical or electronics engineer can build without crunching the numbers, using everything from simple math to very complex equations. I'm sorry to inform the overly egotistical and self-assured college professors that blind chance and natural selection can't do complex math, nor can they think creatively. Nor can they run complex biological programs.
You know there are scientists such as microbiologist Michael Behe who believe that the cell is an irreducibly complex form of life that can't have possibly evolved but instead had to be created. I don't agree with him, and I'm sure many microbiologists don't either. Two scientists I saw on PBS years ago said they made their colleagues hopping mad at them for saying that DNA has a written program in it and that a program requires a programmer. I would like to see dissident scientists like them invited to these debates to kind of round them out a bit and hopefully confuse things further and put it on TV for all to see the madness take place. I had a feeling that the staunch evolution hard liners don't want to acknowledge that their wayward colleagues even exist. Nor do they care to hear what they have to say. Egos run high everywhere from science to show business. Amen.
Raymond Moran