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Evolution Is Not Fact Or Science

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Randy Merrill

Published: February 11, 2008

Recently I read Bob Glavey's letter concerning teaching evolution vs. creationism in Florida schools. It seems he would reject the idea of teaching both views. Why? Wouldn't testing the theories side-by-side demonstrate like the Super Bowl who the real champion is? Or is there fear that another giant upset might occur? Wouldn't the contest be a great educational tool and provide opportunities for inquisitive young minds to make educated choices?

Though Mr. Glavey knows some 17th century history, his understanding of science and the Bible reveals that he may need to do some more homework. Mr. Glavey's so-called "creation myth" confusion in Genesis 1 and 2 can be easily clarified by a common teaching and writing method. First, the overview is stated (topic sentence) and then the particulars are addressed. Genesis chapter 1 explains what was created and when. Genesis chapter 2 explains how it was done (the details of the process.)

While Mr. Glavey seemed worried about the sequence of how God created man, woman and the animals, his theory of evolution poses a much greater problem. If it took "millions of years" for man to evolve from a rock with all of his complexities, what probability is there that a compatible female would arrive by the same process at the same time and place to propagate a human race?

Mr. Glavey states that "scientific evidence proved that the great dinosaurs had been extinct for over 60 million years before man appeared on Earth." How does he or anyone else know this "scientific evidence?" Was anyone there? If Glavey is referring to the "evidence" of the fossil record, how does he explain the dinosaur and man tracks found in the same strata in the Paluxy River Basin near Glen Rose, Texas, or along the Glen Canyon in Northern Arizona? Did Mr. Glavey get his scientific evidence" and dating about the extinction of the dinosaurs from the theoretical geologic Column (found only in a public school science text book but never in the Earth's strata?) Is he aware that many cultures around the world have dragon legends and stories of dinosaur-like encounters? The oldest Bible book of Job records the existence of "behemoth" and "leviathan" in chapters 40-41. These creatures obviously existed in man's time and some people claim offspring of the "great lizards" can still be sighted today.

Mr. Glavey is right about evolution when he states that "the traces of the process and (sic) often not clear and there are many gaps." However, his statement that "the scientific evidence of the process of evolution itself is so overwhelming that (sic) must be accepted as "fact" and not just theory" is false! What evidence is he talking about? Can he name even one example where the process of evolution has been observed and tested according to the established scientific method? Sorry, studies on peppered moths or fruit flies showing mutations within kinds –– hoaxes like Piltdown man, Nebraska man and Java man or the highly unreliable Radiocarbon dating methods –– do not verify evolution. They only embarrass the theory.

Let's be honest about evolution. Yelling long enough and loud enough does not validate facts. Whether we consider the origin of the Solar System, man and animals, plants and rock formations, or read "Evolution," F.H.T. Rhodes book of "proofs," the theory of evolution never sprouted a leg to stand on.

Evolution is not fact! It is not even science!

It cannot stand up to the first two laws of Thermodynamics and the process has only been theorized, but never proved. As a propaganda device devised by those who rejected God while seeking human answers for man's origin, it's a classic. Humanistic evolution is a religion and I agree that it needs to be expelled from school.

In a society that trumpets diversity, open forums and free-thinking, why has creationism been disallowed in the unleveled arena of most public educational systems? Granted it takes faith to believe that, "In the beginning (time) God (intelligent designer) created the heaven (space) and the earth" (matter and activated these with light. But to believe that nothing packed itself into a compact ball of nothingness (why?) and exploded (how? by what?) thus producing hydrogen and helium (from where?) causing meteors (from what?) to fly into frictionless space spinning in different directions thus accidentally forming our perfectly balanced and ordered universe so that after billions of years man evolved from a rock or some primordial soup and somehow whole swimming in water (?) adapted a lung and limbs to crawl up on "land?" that takes faith, a whole lot of faith!

Isn't it interesting how the fossil record, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the Ice Age and human migration patterns seem to make sense if the biblical world-wide flood of Noah's day is considered? Isn't it funny how stars, hydrogen in the universe, comets, Jupiter's moons, lunar gases, Earth's rotation, magnetic field decay, oil pressure beneath the Earth's surface, river deltas, tree rings, population statistics and a host of other observable evidences call for a young Earth in keeping with the biblical record, not "billions of years old" evolutionary model.

What if once again we taught our children in schools that God created them to glorify Him, like we did before 1933 when John Dewey's Progressive Education Movement got rolling, promoted through his leadership of the American Humanist Association, (501 c 3 tax exempt organization) ? What if we taught our students that they have a noble purpose in life and that they aren't just the result of a random accident or some higher animal form with little or no eternal value? Will we continue to keep our head in the sand while crime, violence, and sexual irresponsibility increase, and moral values, discipline and test scores decline? (Maybe Mr. Glavey should review the historical connection between the advancement of the theory of evolution and the decline of societal values over the last 75 years.) At any rate, can we afford to allow the local schools (with tax payers dollars to continue cramming this one-sided detrimental philosophy into our children? Is this education, or is this indoctrination?

If the sacred cow of evolution is so high and mighty, let it be tested by the scientific method. Let the evidence be disclosed and the results submitted to Congress and every school in the country. Let it stand against the other view(s) in a real science Super Bowl. My hypothesis is that if you put the origin theories, the observable evidence and the consequences of those theories side by side, I doubt that you'd have to be "Smarter Than A Fifth Grader" to figure out what Florida needs in every science classroom.

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