Evolution requires the greater faith

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Date published: 7/5/2005

Evolution requires the greater faith

Letter-writers Roy Gratz and Thomas Fortune base their belief in evolution on so-called scientific-facts and not on faith ["'Intelligent design' is nothing more than bogus science" and "We long for the supernatural, so theories of evolution abound," June 16].

The famous evolutionist George Gaylord Simpson stated, "The meaning of evolution is that man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind."

Do these writers believe they are just a mistake of life? What is the purpose of life if we really have no purpose?

In real life, evolutionists do not base their conclusions on "scientific" evidence. The assumptions they make are based on naturalism, the doctrine that "nature is all there is," and materialism, the belief that matter is all there is (i.e., the fundamental particles that make up both matter and energy).

There is nothing "scientific" about these evolution assumptions. (Ask any real scientist--no, I'm not one.)

And it would imply that they make their conclusions hoping there is no God. If there is no God, then life is indeed purposeless.

It takes more faith to believe in evolution and no God than it does to believe in creation of the human race by "intelligent design." Therefore, evolution is just another religion, goes really well with New Age thought, and we should not teach it in public schools.

And it is definitely humanism, which the U.S. Supreme Court has declared to be a religion.

Karen Kuzdzal

Spotsylvania

Date published: 7/5/2005