Tom Wimsatt

Mount Airy, Md 21771-7490

The Gazette

218 Main Street

Mount Airy, Md.  21771

Dear Gazette,

I found the letter by Ross Dangel in the November 8, 2005 Gazette to be very funny.  Mr. Dangel must have written that letter tongue-in-cheek for sure.  It is filled with so many silly assertions it just HAS to be a joke.  For starters, the scientific method requires observation and experimentation.  I guess Mr. Dangel observed the so-called “Big Bang”, animals changing into other kinds of animals, and the forever elusive missing link. Has he forgotten to inform the rest of the world?  Evolution ”is a proven fact”?  Where’s the beef?  There are no transitional forms in the fossil record, fossils cross rock strata more often than evolutionists would like to admit and the dating methods are so inaccurate as to be the single greatest hidden joke of the scientific community.  Do you know how fossils are dated, typically?  By the age of the layer of rock strata in which they are found.  Do you know how the rock strata is dated, typically?  By the age of the fossils found there!  If that isn’t circular reasoning then I’m looking for Santa Claus this year.  By the way, those layers of rock that are so beautifully displayed in the Grand Canyons and elsewhere that the evolutionists like to use for dating stuff are not uniform.  That means one layer in your back yard ten feet down may be 20 feet down in the next county or even be the upper most layer somewhere else.  How can anyone be sure when it was actually laid down? 

There are many more holes in the theory of evolution than I could possibly recount in this letter.  The only fact here is that many people have put their faith in evolution with no more facts to back it up than intelligent design.  Given what we know about evolution and the rather slavish way some people defend it looks like a matter of religion to me!  Intelligent design, on the other hand, better fits the evidence and makes far more sense than the alternative.  “Evolution is a proven fact,” eh?  Yeah, RIGHT!  That’s a good one!