Letter to Editor
The Record
Kitchener, Ontario
Re: "Evolution is Just a Theory"
The ruling by Judge John Jones in the District Court of the U.S. to exclude intelligent design from the scientific classroom is appalling.
If evolution is to be taught, and it should be, then creation should be taught in the same classroom.
Many people wrongly elevate the study of evolution to some exclusive level. From a scientific perspective, both creation and evolution are hypotheses or theories only, and that is all that they will ever remain.
Science can be used to explore either theory, but neither evolution nor creation conform to the scientific method because, essentially, they can neither be repeated nor observed. Unlike gravitational, thermodynamic, hydraulic, chemical, biological, structural, electrical or other laws about our universe, the study of our origins will always be outside the realm of scientific proof.
Does it matter what our schools teach about our origins? It sure does. It shapes our entire world view.
How do we teach our children, for example, to adopt moral accountability if we teach them that they are no more than the chance product arising out of the muck and slime of a primordial Earth and that their ancestors are monkeys and amoebae?
The pathetic irony in all of this is that it is the same God of creation who is the God of all science.
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