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7-2-08
Dear Editor:
Malcolm Jones, in his
article: Who Was
More Important: Lincoln or Darwin? makes a
serious error when he concludes that “He (Darwin) became
the very model of a modern major scientist without
benefit of graduate school, grants, or even peer
reviews.” A generally accepted
dictionary definition of science is: a branch of
knowledge with a body of facts or truths systematically
arranged and showing the operation of general laws.
Darwin set forth a body of facts when he observed
micro-evolution taking place within families, but
he failed to show the operation of evolutionary laws in
macro-evolution. A black cat
and a white cat are likely to produce black and white
spotted offspring, the offspring still being a feline.
There is abundant factual evidence to support
change within families (kinds).
However, when Darwin applied this same principle of
change to macro-evolution, the results were
disastrous. He found that dogs
always produce dogs, cats always produce cats, and
elephants always produce elephants. Animals of one
family (kind) cannot produce an offspring of another
family (kind). However, according to
Darwin, when Mother Time and Father Chance wave their
magic wands over this demonstrated natural law of “like
producing like,” demonstrable truth is rejected for
blustery speculation! This
imaginative fancy of Darwin is not the only factual
flaw. Before Darwin’s evolutionary
process can take place, the objects evolving must be
alive. However, Darwin ignored
the problem of “the origin of life,” simply assuming
life as the foundation upon which his theoretical
process rested. A Darwin champion,
Dr. Lynn Caporale, and a graduate of the University of
California at Berkley, has this to say on page one of
her book Darwin in
the Genome: “There was a moment in time when
the dust itself edged, in slow motion, over a boundary
into life.” Such rampant imagination
makes for intriguing fiction, but it won’t stand muster
as the “very model of modern major” science.
Fillmer Hevener, Ed. D.
(University of Virginia)
224 Mohele Road,
Farmville, Va. 23901
(434) 392-6255
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