Darwin's theory was not made to dispute religion

Editor,

In response to Dennis Kinzler's argument in Tuesday's Daily Lobo that evolution is another religion, I want to say that the definition of evolution is, "The change in the concentration of particular alleles (genes) in a community of individuals." Where in that definition does the clause "If God does not exist" come from?

This seems to be a keystone in many anti-evolutionists' logic. Darwin's theory was not made to dispute one creator - it was made to explain the natural phenomena he observed. To say Darwin invented evolution is ignorant. All living creatures on this planet have DNA, RNA, amino acid-based proteins and cell membranes. To ignore this similarity is to avoid looking at the big picture.

The better question to ask is why is evolution not considered a religion? The answer is because it is based on fact. But to say the theory - not hypothesis - of evolution somehow leads to the negation of God is illogical. Never did Darwin once say that there is no God. Also, to say God is almighty yet to deny he has the power to work outside of a 5,000-year timeframe is contradictory. You believe that what an EKG machine shows you is your heartbeat, but you do not believe a carbon-dating machine when it tells you a rock is billions of years old. Where do you draw the line? Perhaps, all evolution has done is force the scale and complexity of the universe up a notch. It has not, however, become a religion.

Josh Castillo

UNM student