Letters to the Editor

I would like to point out to Fred Williams that while there may indeed be many "advanced-degreed scientists who are brave enough to admit the speciousness of the secular darling cow of evolutionary theory," he would be hard-pressed to find anyone willing and able to provide a cogent scientific argument for a literal interpretation of Genesis. I would like to point out to Kurt Cowling that he is the one who "misses the point," that "mutations" and "variations within a species" are two entirely different processes, and the combined and accumulated effects of both over time have, in fact, created new species.

I would like to point out to Jeremy Reitsema that nobody correctly claims "we came from monkeys," but that modern humans share a common ancestor with modern apes, and his inability to understand this distinction distorts and twists all that he says on this subject.

Finally, I would like to point out to Tyson Thorne that the statements "God made the universe" and "The universe started from a Big Bang" are not mutually exclusive. While the former is an expression of faith and the latter is an expression of science, both can be true and are not inherently in conflict with each other, and any perceived conflicts are in fact a consequence of an incomplete understanding of both faith and science.

Jim Pilarski
Westminster