Here is my second letter to the Editor of our local community newspaper,
replying to a Mr Alan Needham who identifies himself as "not a Christian"
and "someone who teaches evolutionary theory to university students".
In it I further develop my criticism of "Neo-Darwinism" that it "simply
cannot
know that all mutations that ever occurred in life's history were undirected"
but that "It just assumes they were, as an article of materialistic faith".
Mr Needham's letter is after mine.
Steve
Hi Steve,
One doesn't have to be a Christian, or even believe in a personal god, to be
skeptical of Neo Darwinism. I agree that no one could possibly know whether
those mutations involved in macro evolution were random. An uncontested
example of a mutation leading to macro evolution has not even been observed.
They probably took place over long time periods, and to insist they must
have been random can only be an expression of faith. I have no opposition
to any faith, christian or atheist. I would object to either of them trying
to impose their "faith" upon society. At this point in history, Christians
seem pretty tolerant of differing views. However I resent science trying to
impose randomness as some "official" scientific truth.
Bertvan