Whydoe
24th July 2006, 06:47 AM
This is a letter sent in to one of our small town newspapers by someone claiming to have the answers to evolution. I'm writing back with my reply but wanted to post it here first to see what you people think.
This is the full text (there is no web link for the paper, sorry - I'm lucky they have email)
They call this evolution?
In the last little while there’s been a certain amount of material that’s come across my reading desk concerning the evolution of movies, music and animals, and then my hair started to stand up. I didn’t draw a line in the sand, not yet.
Then there was an item about the evolution of humans. It said we came from come critters that crawled on all fours, and then became something that had long arms, hanging to the knees, suspiciously like an ape. At least by then they walked on hind legs.
This was supposed to be the next stage of evolution of man, hopefully not including women, my idea only, from primitive to modern, rock music loving, beer-guzzling, steak devouring, woman ravishing, man.
To my way of thinking, man has not evolved at all. Today’s man is the same as Moses of old, who got angry, throwing down his heavy cement commandments sternly admonishing his followers to keep order, Before him was Noah, the ark builder. He was much the same as us. This is, he walked upright and all that. He could speak and probably even write if he really put his mind to it.
There wasn’t much to write on in those days, except those awkward and heavy clay tablets, so no one bothered very much.
The point is, you can go back as far as you want in time, but you won’t find a human being much different from us. The animals shown in charts and graphs in schools and other locations are just that. They are the result of the vivid imagination of some scribbler from long ago, having listened to an evolutionist evangelist, then running straight to his desk to draw the various stages of evolution of man as he saw it, from the interpretations gained from the lecture he’d just finished attending.
After all, I’ve held in my hand quite a number of butterfly fossils, supposedly millions of years old. They’re the same as any butterfly you’d see today. They didn’t evolve or grow gills or anything like that.
To which I am replying....
Imagination Indeed
It appears some people should still be writing on awkward and heavy clay tablets. At least then they might think before they “scribble” something down. Most people, who have read past the first ten pages of the bible, understand how science works. According to a letter in the July 21 Weekender, Mr. ***** chooses to think that they just use their vivid imagination to draw out their conclusions.
You could probably write a thousand pages on all the scientific impossibilities in the book of Genesis alone. I’m not here to put down any ones faith. There are many amazing lessons to be learned from the bible and other religions. I’ve just become very tired of the fact that some choose to bash science as a whole when it contradicts something they were told to believe in.
I’m happy for you that Darwin’s material has finally come across your reading desk, Mr. ******. It’s been out for some time now. And, although, many of those theories aren’t written in stone (pun intended), at least it’s a starting point. I want my kids to go to school and learn what has been studied, proven and agreed upon in the scientific community. Not what was written “long ago” and NEVER proven in ANY way what-so-ever.
I must agree, however, that evolution is quite slow. It would seem that some “critters” are moving backwards through the evolutionary chain. Some need to look no further than a reflection for that fact. But before you start knocking those that are doing research, studying facts and finding cures for diseases and then “scribbling” them down; think. Scientists don’t invade other countries and blow stuff up because another group of scientists believe in something different.
I guess some people need to see a butterfly with gills and teeth for proof of evolution. As for me, I’m going to listen to some rock tunes while having a steak and beer.
Anything you think I should fix, add or omit?
This is the full text (there is no web link for the paper, sorry - I'm lucky they have email)
They call this evolution?
In the last little while there’s been a certain amount of material that’s come across my reading desk concerning the evolution of movies, music and animals, and then my hair started to stand up. I didn’t draw a line in the sand, not yet.
Then there was an item about the evolution of humans. It said we came from come critters that crawled on all fours, and then became something that had long arms, hanging to the knees, suspiciously like an ape. At least by then they walked on hind legs.
This was supposed to be the next stage of evolution of man, hopefully not including women, my idea only, from primitive to modern, rock music loving, beer-guzzling, steak devouring, woman ravishing, man.
To my way of thinking, man has not evolved at all. Today’s man is the same as Moses of old, who got angry, throwing down his heavy cement commandments sternly admonishing his followers to keep order, Before him was Noah, the ark builder. He was much the same as us. This is, he walked upright and all that. He could speak and probably even write if he really put his mind to it.
There wasn’t much to write on in those days, except those awkward and heavy clay tablets, so no one bothered very much.
The point is, you can go back as far as you want in time, but you won’t find a human being much different from us. The animals shown in charts and graphs in schools and other locations are just that. They are the result of the vivid imagination of some scribbler from long ago, having listened to an evolutionist evangelist, then running straight to his desk to draw the various stages of evolution of man as he saw it, from the interpretations gained from the lecture he’d just finished attending.
After all, I’ve held in my hand quite a number of butterfly fossils, supposedly millions of years old. They’re the same as any butterfly you’d see today. They didn’t evolve or grow gills or anything like that.
To which I am replying....
Imagination Indeed
It appears some people should still be writing on awkward and heavy clay tablets. At least then they might think before they “scribble” something down. Most people, who have read past the first ten pages of the bible, understand how science works. According to a letter in the July 21 Weekender, Mr. ***** chooses to think that they just use their vivid imagination to draw out their conclusions.
You could probably write a thousand pages on all the scientific impossibilities in the book of Genesis alone. I’m not here to put down any ones faith. There are many amazing lessons to be learned from the bible and other religions. I’ve just become very tired of the fact that some choose to bash science as a whole when it contradicts something they were told to believe in.
I’m happy for you that Darwin’s material has finally come across your reading desk, Mr. ******. It’s been out for some time now. And, although, many of those theories aren’t written in stone (pun intended), at least it’s a starting point. I want my kids to go to school and learn what has been studied, proven and agreed upon in the scientific community. Not what was written “long ago” and NEVER proven in ANY way what-so-ever.
I must agree, however, that evolution is quite slow. It would seem that some “critters” are moving backwards through the evolutionary chain. Some need to look no further than a reflection for that fact. But before you start knocking those that are doing research, studying facts and finding cures for diseases and then “scribbling” them down; think. Scientists don’t invade other countries and blow stuff up because another group of scientists believe in something different.
I guess some people need to see a butterfly with gills and teeth for proof of evolution. As for me, I’m going to listen to some rock tunes while having a steak and beer.
Anything you think I should fix, add or omit?