Tom Wimsatt

Mount Airy, Md 21771-7490

The Gazette

218 Main Street

Mount Airy, Md.  21771

Dear Gazette,

I enjoyed Mr. Frantz’s letter entitled “Evolution does not lack facts” in the Nov. 17 Gazette.  He sums up his rebuttal to my letter by stating that “Intelligent design can be summed up in three words:  God did it” and then calls my assertion that intelligent design fits the evidence better “gratuitous”.  Mr. Frantz needs to catch up with the rest of the class.  The place where all evolutionists start is chaos - the primordial ooze.  They would have us believe that somehow, someway order popped out of chaos.  As any scientist knows, order does not come from chaos.  Second, he would have us believe that “the fossil record is full of transitional forms” while the major proponents of evolution (i.e. Richard Dawkins and Stephen J. Gould among others) admit that there are none and have promoted a concept known as “punctuated equilibrium”.  This concept states that there was no slow changes but long periods of no change with bursts of dramatic change all at once.  This still does not explain why we see single celled organisms and multi-celled organisms always mixed up together in the fossil record.  Catastrophe better explains that but I digress.  He also states that anyone with “a basic knowledge of forensics” could tell us that “events do not have to be observed to show they happened.”  Forensics builds a “theory” and then tests the theory with experiments.  Some things are self-evident like matches near  burned materials or bomb parts near an explosion.  However, they do experiments when there is not obvious cause and effect - that’s science.  Claiming that life just springs from nothing was disproved when spontaneous generation was disproved.  We are not able to prove anything that evolutionists would have us believe as the theory is built on speculation upon speculation.  What Mr. Frantz and other religious evolutionists want us to believe is that when we see a watch in a field it got there by chance and random processes.  I’d rather look for the owner.