Editor,
I was deeply insulted by Debbie Cox's letter published in the Daily Lobo on Wednesday in which she calls creationist theory an outdated fairy tale.
If she is referring to the Bible, then she is completely wrong, because it is one of the most extensively documented books in history. It's my personal conviction that the events it narrates were very real - just look at the Great Pyramids.
During the 400 years of Jewish slavery in Egypt, the people of Israel must have built those monuments for the pharaohs. Unless you're a complete atheist, I can say with confidence that more than 80 percent of all humans believe in a supreme being of some sort, whether it be Allah, Buddha, Krishna or whomever.
Many of the taxpayers she mentioned do believe in God, so creationist theory does have a place in public schools. If she insists on imposing evolutionary theory on pre-collegiate students, then she is quite narrow-minded, because it will be the only theory they will learn.
Failure of imagination is not visualizing that something came to exist from nothing. Failure of imagination is not visualizing that someone walked on water, resurrected the dead and performed many other miracles. Speaking about the great law of the land, it does allow freedom of speech and religion.
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In this case, it might grant the freedom for creationist theory to be taught in public schools. Cox, you need to get outside your intellectual box and consider that your beliefs may be fallacious.
Andres Saenz
UNM student
