Re: (Letters, April 20)
IB次元官网网址檓 with (Letters, April 13). I think to accept evolution as a sufficient explanation for life as we know it requires a lot of faith.
John TaylorB次元官网网址檚 letter disputing that contains its own contradiction. He talks about the animal breeders who developed different types of domestic animals and who inspired DarwinB次元官网网址檚 famous theory.
But TaylorB次元官网网址檚 example obviously requires very intentional and rational breeders. DarwinB次元官网网址檚 theory, however, depends on countless tiny, random variations turning out many higher orders of living beings purely by chance.
Precisely because the odds B次元官网网址� as calculated by various mathematicians B次元官网网址� are so staggeringly against the present orderliness evolving in this way, some proponents of the godless explanation for life have resorted to the science fiction story line of an infinite number of universes to improve those odds.
If there were such an infinity of universes, surely on one of them, or so goes the theory, life could have evolved in such an unlikely way.
Evidence for this infinity of alternatives is completely lacking, of course: that is why we say faith is involved in the evolutionary theory.
Even more faith is required when you realize that DarwinB次元官网网址檚 theory, like Darwin himself, is ultimately the product of random chance variations, at least according to the theory.
On the other hand, according to MagnussonB次元官网网址檚 theory, God created Darwin in His own likeness B次元官网网址� with reason. And He created all life likewise in a rational, ordered and loving way, which is the true meaning of the Genesis account of Creation B次元官网网址� a way that easily includes evolution.
Steve Weatherbe
Victoria
