I'd like to respond to Joseph N. Bell's column from Feb. 14 (The Bell
Curve -- "Answering the creationist challenge").
Interesting how almost every time Joe Bell writes, he seems to take a
few potshots at trustee Wendy Leece and the "Creationist/Fundamentalist"
camp.
Bell paints Leece out to be an uninformed and unenlightened person.
Again, a real cheap shot. We all have our faults, but he's too harsh on
Leece.
As for again "clearing up" the conflict between the teaching of
evolution and creationism (intelligent design), Bell might consider, with
an open mind, to look at some of the creationist arguments. "Evolution"
is not a fact; it is referred to as the "theory of evolution." The fossil
record has never produced or revealed a transitional form of life from
one species to another. This is well-known in the scientific world.
Within a species, yes, but not a finch to a hawk.
The evolutionist and fossil expert Dr. Colin Patterson Sr., a
paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History, said "the famous
fossil expert Stephen J. Gould, and the American Museum people, are hard
to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils." Evolution
teaches that our complex bodies and all life forms on Earth started from
primeval "rocks." This, too is well-known and taught widely. Prehistoric
rains on these rocks ran off and formed pools of primordial "soup," which
later became electrified by lightning strikes and produced crude living
cell systems. Over "billions" of years, these strikes, along with time,
produced more complex cells, and so on.
We all know that our clothing, bodies and machines wear out with time.
They do not, or have never been observed in a scientific setting, evolve
into a higher state of assembly or order. The entropy law and the law of
thermodynamics both contradict evolution. Isn't that "observable"
science? Self-organization (evolution) violates the entropy laws. Complex
system assemblies require all subsystems to be functional for system
survival. In our bodies, we have many systems, such as the eye, that have
several subsystems and without all systems fully functional, the eye does
not work.
If we are to believe evolution, we need to allow the "bending" of
these rules so that the five subsystems in the eye all waited for each
other, over "millions" of years, to perfect themselves independently of
one another. However, there is a problem: "accidental" mutations do not
survive -- for long.
If we took a space trip to an unvisited star system and observed a
