A letter to an editor

A letter to our local newspaper in response to an idiotic editorial


Editor
The Hugoton Hermes
P.O. Box 849
522 South Main
Hugoton, KS 67951

Dear Editor,
I’ll have to admit I was only moderately amused by the misconceptions you authored in your editorial entitled “Progress In Education”. I guess I expected better of you.

Science is the study of natural phenomenon. God is a supernatural being and therefore outside any possible scientific study. Labeling Darwinism as “We don’t need God” is simply absurd, since it can’t even refer to God. Even the 20+ major religions and thousands of sects can’t agree on the properties that God may possess.

Your “balanced view of evolution” becomes terribly unbalanced by introducing the supernatural into a field of study that specifically excludes it because it’s impossible to study it! Unless you can produce the scientific “facts and observations” about this creator that theologians were previously unaware of, and shock the world!

As for any particular “order” you seem to observe, the recent tsunami, hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados have surely disordered matters a bit.

I don’t have any idea where you get your sources, but we can’t compare our DNA with our forbearers, as they’ve been extinct for a very long time. However, if your reading list includes some of the more common science magazines like Discover, Scientific American, or Natural History, you’ll find plenty of articles that report that we share between 96-98% of the genes with the chimpanzee. Of course, maybe your Designer just wanted to reuse some old parts.

Frankly, given the freedom of folk of faith to build as many churches and to participate in them as they wish, the efforts of these “intelligent designer” IDiots to build a pulpit on each science teacher’s desk is a clear violation of the separation of church and state.

Let science deal with the Natural, and faith deal with the Supernatural.

Sincerely,

Kirk Mitchell