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Evolution isn't a revolution - young students understand that
Editor:
Having just completed a five-week course on "evolution" in my intro biology classes, normally for 14- to 16-year old students, we are presented with a repeat of a worn-out, resurrected response by Mr. McCormack. Hypothetically and with earnest, my newly informed students began to dissect his letter.
Mr. Morejon, why does he say "... it (evolution) has many vague facets involving time, environment, genetic code ... all to variable to be condensed into a simple so called 'theory?'"
Mr McCormack might have a different understanding of geology, radioactive dating, biogeography, comparative anatomy, molecular bilolgy and biochemistry than what you've just learned. The importance of exposing each and every one of you to data in each of these fields will only add to your collective knowlege in future educational challenges.
Why does he say, "Mutations are uniformly dentrimental to the specie?"
Good observation, students. As you've learned mutations are neither detrimental nor beneficial. Beneficial mutations in an environment will be passed onto the next generation. Detrimental mutations may/may not be passed on depending upon the type, degree and penetrance in the population.
Mr. Morejon, why does he say "... but the truth is we are not evolving to a higher level of organization as the evolutionists would have you believe..." We were never taught that.
Well students, you're right. You never learned that evolution is taking organisms/man to higher levels of organization. Evolution isn't concerned about the quantity or quality of genes. It has no higher or lower direction.
Evolution is blind. As you learned, homosapiens (Neanderthal) was stronger, bigger and had a larger cranial capacity than modern man, yet only we exist now.
What about his last comment, Mr. Morejon, "Ideas have consequences ... and ... evolution is the cornerstone and handmaiden of Marxism, Nazism, and Communism. There is no God, life is a matter of chance, only the survival of the fittest counts?"
Our parents taught us that "actions have consequences, not ideas."
So what gives here?
Yearly Mr. McCormack states in his letters, and whices us to believe that evolution is somehow related to religious, political, social, and economic belief systems. "Survival of the fittest" is a Social Darwinism believe that [neither] Darwin himself, nor evolutionary biologists subscribed to.
Additionally, most theists believe in evolution. Lutherans, Baptists, Catholics, Jews, Unitarians, Episcopalians, Methodists, Hindus, Buddhists... none have problems with evolution. so if you believe in a god(s), or have no belief in a god(s), the science of evolution should never infringe upon your personal beliefs.