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Scientific Evidence Leads to Theory of Evolution

Posted on: Monday, 9 May 2005, 15:00 CDT

It is certainly the right and privilege of anyone to reject evolution. However, those who do are clearly not doing so because of the scientific issues involved.

Letters published recently in The Pantagraph reveal a deep ignorance of science, proving the authors not only misguided, but apparently poorly educated as well. They have simply absorbed and regurgitated many of the false creationist objections to evolution.

Scientists have answered these objections on countless occasions, yet these old chestnuts are still trotted out time and time again for our amusement.

The truth is that evolution is as well-established a scientific theory as modern atomic theory or modern gravitational theory. Actually, given that the graviton, the hypothetical quantum of gravitational interaction, has yet to be rationalized with general relativity or verified by observation, evolution is better established than modern gravitational theory.

Evolution has an Everest of evidence in its support, with well- established mechanisms to explain it. There is no "evidence of creation," as it has no framework of theoretical or experimental scientific support. Because creation theories, including "intelligent design," cannot be tested, they cannot be offered as an alternative to evolutionary theory, for which researchers publish hundreds upon hundreds of independent tests each year.

Creationism is entirely without substance. It has been comprehensively defeated in all scientific forums. It has no support whatever within mainstream science. Its witless, farcical and unchanging script is contrary to logic, nature and science.

We, therefore, do not have a situation where there are two more or less equally weighted but opposing points of view, each with supporting evidence and each requiring great faith.

It does not require an act of faith to accept evolution but simply the examination of a mountain of experimental evidence. However, it requires both faith and ignorance to accept creationism.

On every level, the creation "science" movement is a sad, sick joke, and we should feel sympathy for the unfortunates who are taken in by it. It is a joke -- it is a joke to science, a joke to rational thought and it is an embarrassment to the Christian religion.

Robert Ivy

Bloomington

Source: Pantagraph

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