Evolution in Kansas Schools
Re “Kansans, Evolution Coexist Tenuously,” Sept. 12: The Kansas Board of Education is right to delete testing on evolution. It seems to be a hypothesis unable to gather sufficient evidence to advance to the status of theory, much less fact, and unlike other scientific theories, has no proven predictive power whatsoever. Even as plausible theory, it stands alone in science. It can’t be tested. It can’t be proven. It has no practical application. Yet it can’t be denied. At the urging of the National Academy of Sciences it is presented in the schools and the media as if it were fact better proven than any other scientific theory.
Evolution seems far more to be the religious belief of scientists than a legitimate theory of science. In fact its chief, if not its only, use seems to be as a tool to debunk what they view as the falseness, sham and exaggerated claims of the Bible.
RAYMOND J. ROSTAN
Orange
* An ardent creationist is quoted as predicting that evolutionists and their “bad science” will eventually “die out,” leaving creationism and “good science” to dominate the curriculum--an unwitting and therefore profound illustration of Darwin’s theory of natural selection!
WILLIAM CHITWOOD
La Canada
* The Kansas Board of Education should realize that Adam and Eve couldn’t “multiply” on the Earth because, except for Eve, no other woman existed for Cain to marry--thus, the world could never be populated.
GEORGE WOOD
Malibu
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