Evolution, Creationism and Public Education

Regarding “Evolution vs. Creation,” Part A, Dec. 15:

As we watch our country’s technological prowess continue to decline, it is disheartening to see a person like (Rev.) Louis Sheldon--supposedly one who loves his country--contribute to the slide. Japan graduates 10 engineers for every lawyer, while we produce 10 lawyers for every engineer. The dilemma is to first get students excited about science early, and then teach the principles that have guided man to some of his greatest achievements. Within the physical sciences, it is the study of evolution that best embodies these guiding principles, not the “study” of creation. Sheldon’s dogma belongs in discussions of a philosophical nature, weak as his cerebral tools may be in that area.

Louis Sheldon inherits the same system of thought that condemned the first physicians as heretics, that persecuted the first men who presented evidence that the earth was not the center of the universe.

GREG THOMPSON

El Toro