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INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL (LANCASTER, PA.) February 10, 2005, Thursday
Copyright 2005 Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL (LANCASTER, PA.)
February 10, 2005, Thursday
SECTION: EDITORIAL, Pg. A-9, LETTERS
LENGTH: 300 words
HEADLINE: Evolution is religion
BODY:
TO THE EDITOR:
Evolution is as religious as "intelligent design," and intelligent design
is as scientific as evolution.
One of the definitions in the dictionary for religion is, "a cause,
principle or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith." Science is
facts that can be demonstrated, observed and repeated. Evolution cannot be
proved or tested; it can only be believed. Evolution is based on faith.
Microevolution, small changes within a species, happens all the time. This
is science. This is testable and observable. Macroevolution, one species
changing into something else (particles to people) is not science. It has
never been observed, and there is no scientific method by which this can
naturally take place. One may choose to believe in macroevolution, but it
certainly is not science. One must use faith to believe it has happened in
the past.
Some say the great scientists of years past were not supportive of the idea
of intelligent design, and that if they had been we would still be living
in the "stone age." But I tell you that most of the founding fathers of
modern science were creationists (Newton, Kepler, Galileo, Boyle, Pascal,
Faraday, Pasteur, Maxwell, Ray Cuvier, Linnaeus, Agassiz and many others).
Scientific evidence fits the intelligent design model much better than the
evolutionary model. One may believe in evolution, but it is time that tax
money stops funding this unscientific bias that supports evolution in our
public schools.
If evolutionists want their children taught the evolutionary theory
exclusively, they may send their children to private schools. For the
public school system to teach its students the evolution theory as the only
possible origin of life is biased and scientifically inaccurate. Steve
Hollinger, Manheim
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