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Evolution Again

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Roy Dettwiler

Published: February 17, 2008

I was sorely disappointed when reading that the Highlands County School Board had backed down after listening to a few speeches by people who were claiming that evolution is a proven scientific fact, and that any other theory had no right to a discussion in science classes! Correct me if I am wrong, but it is my understanding that a scientific "theory" is accepted on the basis of such criteria as the following: 1. It must be observable. 2. It must be reproducible. 3. It must be predictable.

If evolution had those three characteristics, perhaps we could accept it as a viable explanation for what we see all around us; the astonishing complexity of life, the world and the universe.

It is my belief that evolution in fact does not exhibit even one of those criteria:

1. Show me a species which is observably changing into a new species.

2 Show me that you can reproduce the change of a species into a brand new and entirely different species.

3. Predict for me what the next new species is going to be like.

In reference to number three, it appears that mankind is at the top of the heap at the present time. What are we going to develop into next? Will it be a living, breathing, thinking, speaking, all-knowing, all powerful, immortal race worthy of the best of present science fiction? Would we then call him God?

Let us evaluate your prediction.

If evolution cannot answer these questions, what would be the harm of allowing our young people to consider other possible explanations of our present existence, such as Intelligent Design, or even creation? What are you afraid of?

Roy Dettwiler Avon Park

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