The so-called "theory" of evolution is one of the most researched fields in science. But it’s
not as if one can sit on the sidelines and watch things evolving. No one lives 4.5 billion years and can
watch evolution in progress. It’s not as though one can send a satellite to Mars, calculating a precise
pathway, and orbit it around, say, Mars. You can’t do that with evolution.
What you can do is to examine rocks whose age can be accurately dated and check for fossils. The older
the rocks, the more primitive the fossils. You could go to the Grand Canyon and see that the deeper into
the canyon that one descends, the younger are the rocks and the more primitive are the fossils. In the
lab you can take a chick embryo and by turning on certain genes at certain times, the chick will develop
teeth and grow a dinosaur-like tail. Also, you can examine embryos and note that there is a collection
of genes that is identical from the most primitive to the most advanced forms of life – the odds are
impossibly high that this could be a coincidence. This gene group controls the basic formation of the
bodies of all higher organisms – and incidentally, the basic body plan of all higher forms of life
(above Protista) is the same, again highly unlikely except in an evolutionary sense. I could go on, but
you get the idea.
No the concept of evolution is not some day-dream. It is real – as real as it gets in biology – and
should be taught as fact, not fiction. This letter won’t change the minds of many people, but if it
gives some people pause to think, then it will have been worthwhile.
William E. Feeman, Jr., M.D.
Bowling Green
P.S. If evolution’s opponents don’t want to get involved in science, consider the price of ignorance:
Pompeii and Santorini.The so-called "theory" of evolution is one of the most researched fields
in science. But it’s not as if one can sit on the sidelines and watch things evolving. No one lives 4.5
billion years and can watch evolution in progress. It’s not as though one can send a satellite to Mars,
calculating a precise pathway, and orbit it around, say, Mars. You can’t do that with evolution.
What you can do is to examine rocks whose age can be accurately dated and check for fossils. The older
the rocks, the more primitive the fossils. You could go to the Grand Canyon and see that the deeper into
the canyon that one descends, the younger are the rocks and the more primitive are the fossils. In the
lab you can take a chick embryo and by turning on certain genes at certain times, the chick will develop
teeth and grow a dinosaur-like tail. Also, you can examine embryos and note that there is a collection
of genes that is identical from the most primitive to the most advanced forms of life – the odds are
impossibly high that this could be a coincidence. This gene group controls the basic formation of the
bodies of all higher organisms – and incidentally, the basic body plan of all higher forms of life
(above Protista) is the same, again highly unlikely except in an evolutionary sense. I could go on, but
you get the idea.
No the concept of evolution is not some day-dream. It is real – as real as it gets in biology – and
should be taught as fact, not fiction. This letter won’t change the minds of many people, but if it
gives some people pause to think, then it will have been worthwhile.
William E. Feeman, Jr., M.D.
Bowling Green
P.S. If evolution’s opponents don’t want to get involved in science, consider the price of ignorance:
Pompeii and Santorini.