Editor,
This is in response to Gerardo Saenz's letter in Thursday's edition of the Daily Lobo titled, "Law of cause and effect disproves evolutionary theory," in which Saenz attempts to single-handedly disprove evolution with a couple of fallible theories.
When I first read this, I thought it was a joke. I laughed out loud when I finished it.
For starters, Saenz uses two man-made theories. Neither is perfect nor divine and neither pertains to everything. And yet, even so, he still fails to make a coherent point.
First he says that effects can never be greater than their causes. But this is assuming that he is fit to determine relative greatness, and he fails to back this point any further, so in response to this, I will leave the issue for now and continue with other matters.
Next he considers the law of entropy. But, again, this law is really more of a theory. Nonetheless, evolution is entropic to a certain extent. All species grow and die out to make room for other species, from the extinction of the Neanderthals and their evolution into Homo sapiens to our eventual extinction - even back to the massive scale extinction of the dinosaurs, of which I certainly hope Saenz is not trying to deny the existence.
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And on a personal note, I would like to draw attention to the fact that not once during this letter have I tried to disprove God. Instead I would like to ask Saenz a question.
Have you really been so blinded by faith, and I use the term loosely, that you cannot open your eyes to the possibility that there might just be room enough on this great Earth for religion and evolution, God and primordial ooze, to coincide?
Stefanie Shahvar
UNM student
