Reader’s Respond -- Intelligent design draws intelligent response
I am writing in response to James E. Young’s letter about trustee
Wendy Leece’s attempt to add intelligent design to school curriculum
(Mailbag, Jan. 29). It is quite obvious that Young has never done any
serious study on intelligent design before and is extremely biased.
He is using circular thinking in trying to defeat Leece. He states
that there is no empirical evidence for intelligent design. Well, how
does he know? Evolution requires that life comes from nonlife and lizards
turned into birds. Where is the “empirical evidence” for that? There is
none.
In my study of intelligent design, I have found that intelligent
design is often far more sensible than what they are teaching us in
school (only evolution). Furthermore, it would not be a “corruption of
knowledge” to put intelligence design in textbooks.
To have only one view in the textbooks, when the other is just as
worthy, is ignorance. And ignorance is a corruption of knowledge.
MORGAN LAIDLAW
Newport Beach
* EDITOR’S NOTE: Morgan Laidlaw is a Newport Harbor High student.
First, I’d like to thank trustee Wendy Leece for accurately
representing the majority of people who believe in creation by a higher
intelligence. It is about time someone stands up for the science and
factual explanation of creationism. James Young, in his letter, has his
facts very much wrong regarding the study of who is God and what has he
done that can scientifically be proven.
There is, and has been since the 1800s, when Darwin first questioned
God’s existence, a strong scientific representation of God’s existence.
In fact, when I was doing some library research for children’s Egyptian
art studies, I ran across a book published in the 1920s explaining that
the Babylonian Gardens were located by a scientist-anthropologist who was
a devout Christian. He used only the Bible to locate them.
One may recall these gardens as being one of the Seven Wonders of the
world. This may not seem like much to modern-day Christians, but at this
time Darwin had completely debunked the Bible and all its content very
publicly and emphatically. He called it a fairy tale book. The story of
this expedition and the difficulty maneuvering finds across a desert by
camel are amazing. I wish I remembered the name of it.
Today, there is an institute founded and operated in the San Diego
vicinity called the Creation Research Institute. The two gentlemen who
oversee the institute are highly qualified scientists. Each and every
research procedure is done very meticulously. Only people with
exceptional qualifications are permitted to even volunteer. I have an
uncle who introduced me to this center because he volunteered in the
research department. My aunt, not having a scientific degree, was
relegated to the library for sorting research books. My uncle refined
rock for study. Very labor intense and a little interesting, but most of
all preciseness was the goal. To my uncle, though, this was a natural
next step in life because he had spent his life teaching science and
God’s existence. The more scientists’ research, the more facets of
Darwin’s theory have been disproved. That’s fact.
In fact, I’m willing to go out on a limb and clearly predict: The
missing link will never be found. However, I know that to some people the
hunt is the fun of life, so have fun. Just don’t throw scientific
evidence out the window in doing so.
JANE ALTMAN-DWAN
Newport Beach
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