Creation and evolution
Sir,—John Canham (January 7) claims to represent the "... views of increasing numbers of scientists ...” on the pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo of creationism: I consider that the overwhelming majority of scientists disagree only on facets of evolutionary theory, e.g., the gradualists versus the proponents of punctuatpd-equilibrium. John Canham’s misleading statement highlights the methods used by so-called “scientific” creationists to (further their beliefs. — Yours, etc., i
MIKE FREEMAN. January 9, 1987.
Sir,—John Briggs and F. David Pent, in their book, "Looking Glass Universe, the Emerging Science of Wholeness,” show that everything in the universe interacts and affects everything else.-They have moved away from the mechanistic theories of classical physics to avoid the view that animate and inanimate matter are actually part of each other.; However, whatever theories are expounded, the scientists' pursuit of the past still ends in the moment of creation. To discount God as the creator and the Bible requires the acceptance of so. many. countless coincidences as to defeat all logic; yet' stubborn atheists continue to blind themselves to the truth 4n spite of all evidence.— Yours, etc., ; P. B. WYE. Blenheim, « January fe, 1987. ’
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