Re: Robert Meeker's Nov. 14 letter, "It's not science":
Meeker makes the claim that scientific creationism is nothing more than repackaged creationism and lacks any scientific basis. He also states, "Evolution is the scientific explanation for the development of organisms that inhabit the Earth."
Proponents of evolution describe evolution to be a process where more complicated life forms evolve from simpler life forms. Despite our modern laboratories and ability to simulate ideal conditions, our scientists have not been able to demonstrate evolution in the laboratory. Nor has the process of evolution been directly observed by anyone. And by evolution, I mean macro evolution, where one species evolves into another.
Evolution is nothing more than a philosophical framework in which to explain origins and has no scientific basis at all. For many, it is their religion, because to believe anything else would mean they would have to acknowledge God as creator.
Meeker's arrogant statement -- "This inexorable process is tough to explain to people who have not taken cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, etc." -- is false. You don't need advanced training to understand the theory of evolution nor to determine for yourself that evolution is without any credible evidence and therefore blatantly false.
Meeker also states that creationism or intelligent design is not taught in schools. In public schools, he is correct. But creationism and intelligent design are taught alongside evolution in lots of private schools, including colleges and universities in this country. Public schools indoctrinate students with evolution and censor all other viewpoints from the classroom.
You cannot teach students to think critically if you do not expose them to other viewpoints and teach them to discover for themselves the evidence for, and against, what is true and what is right.
-- Anthony van Leeuwen, Ventura