LETTER: A Christian dissent from evolution theory
Carol and John Santa’s Oct. 23 letter to the editor just begs for a response even though the election is over. A previous letter by another author had mocked Greg Gianforte for believing the earth is only 6,000 years old and this new letter mocked him for not believing in evolution and having heavily funded advocates of creationism. Wow! He sure must be a radical!
Well, hold on a minute — Creationism stems from the literal words of Genesis, so it’s safe to assume Gianforte is a Christian and puts his money where his mouth is. So, his religion is being attacked by those with a different religion — evolutionism. Yes, it’s a religion since it’s a belief system with no scientific support.
From what I have studied, here are serious questions about evolution and the “millions of years” fable:
— Carbon 14 is a popular dating system for things which were formerly alive. It’s relatively short half life of about 5,700 years limits its use to remains that are less than 100,000 year old. There definitely shouldn’t be any trace of it in dinosaur bones and certainly not in diamonds, but alas, plenty of carbon 14 is found in these items.
— Collagen is the most abundant protein in the animal kingdom, but readily breaks down after the animal is dead; even with fancy preservation attempts. Scientists have determined in laboratory tests that collagen completely breaks down and is not detectable in less than 100,000 years. You guessed it — collagen is still found in dinosaur bones supposedly millions of years old. So much for millions of years. Piles of evidence support the age of the earth as being less than 10,000 years.
How about evolution? We’ve covered this subject in the past on these pages. It’s sufficient to say that for evolution to be remotely possible, millions of years are needed and I’ve just shown two scientific facts that deny long ages. The final end to the evolution argument is that “molecule to man” evolution requires a mechanism to supply new information to the DNA. No such mechanism exists.
Thus, evolution is just a religion, but is taught as fact in our public schools. Constitutionally, that’s not supposed to be allowed. I would guess that is why Gianforte supports school choice. By the way, I’m still waiting to see any proof of evolution along with that elusive mechanism to add all that information to DNA. Lacking that, I’ll stand with Greg and stick to the Biblical account. —Gary Goers, Kalispell