THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, April 11, 1996 TAG: 9604110004
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 45 lines
In response to ``We must undertand God's evolving world'' (letter, April 2): Like the theory itself, the letter is not based on scientific fact. ``Evolution'' collapses under the white light of laboratory scrutiny. Propaganda-hype, peer opinion and a closed educational system have concealed the truth. It is not even science!
Scientists - some famous - have written dozens of books and hundreds of articles meticulously documenting evolution's inadequacy. Across the world, advance-degree scientists by the thousands have discarded evolution. Others, debunking evolution, don't know what to believe.
Sir Fred Hoyle, British astronomer, professor of astronomy at Cambridge University.: ``The chance that higher life forms might have emerged this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.''
Pierre-Paul Grasse', University of Paris, Past President of French Academy Science: ``To insist . . . that life appeared quite by chance and evolved . . accordance with the facts.''
Colin Patterson Sr., palaeontologist, British Museum of Natural History, London: ``I mean the stories, the narratives about change over time. How the dinosaurs became extinct, how the mammals evolved, where man came from. These seem to me to be little more than story telling.''
Professor Louis Bounoure, director of Research at the French National Center of Scientific Research: ``Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless.''
Malcolm Muggeridge, world famous journalist and philosopher: ``I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution . . . will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious a hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.''
RUTH WILSON
Virginia Beach, April 3, 1996 by CNB