Creationism and scientific facts

Re “Yabba-dabba science,” editorial, May 24

I was saddened by your factually deficient screed against creationism’s scientific challenge to evolution, as demonstrated by the Creation Museum in Kentucky.

Fact: Creationists do not believe the Earth is flat.

Fact: There are serious scientific problems with evolution, and much anticreationist rhetoric is an attempt to protect evolution from scientific criticism.

Fact: Creationists make scientific arguments for their position while most of their critics only use attacks and try to define science in such a way as to rule out creationism on principle. A friendly suggestion: Get some open-minded reporter to read what the creationists are saying, not what their enemies are saying about them, and publish a fair report.

SAM DARGAN

Darlington, S.C.

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Evolution is not a religion, and creationism is not a science. Dinosaurs died out some 60 million years (give or take a couple of million) before the first humanoids walked the Earth.

But the new Creation Museum pretends to be scientific fact by putting them together in the same time frame -- a few thousand years ago.

What is troubling is that many people -- especially youngsters -- will believe this and other nonscientific “facts” and become ill-informed citizens, just what we don’t need.

SOL TAYLOR

Sherman Oaks