Creationists Focus On Missing Link

Like many other Americans, I have mixed feelings about the idea of equal treatment for creation and evolution in our schools. On the one hand, even though I’m a “creationist” myself, I don’t like it when legislatures and courts begin to decide what should be taught in our schools. On the other hand, I also believe that people should be given a chance to decide things for themselves--and they can’t do this when they’re not exposed to the different sides of the issues. So I find myself genuinely torn over the whole affair.

Unfortunately, Yoder’s article, with its crude and innacurate caricature of the creationist position, is an example of why we’re in this mess today. If more people on both sides of the fence had been willing to sit down and consider the issues in a fair and honest way, there might never have been a need for the kind of legislation that was passed in Louisiana. As members of an organization called Students for Origins Research, I and many other people have been striving for several years to promote fair dialogue between creationists and evolutionists on scientific issues surrounding the creation/evolution debate.

MARK D. HARTWIG

Santa Barbara