Under a microscope, evolution not all it's cracked up to be

Editor,

The theory of evolution should be subject to criticism and Socratic questioning like any other idea. Unfortunately, it often is not. Evolution holds an unprecedented status when it comes to being challenged. The answer is: You must be a great fool not to believe this.

Since you appeal to empirical data, many questions deserve an answer: How do you account for the paucity of evidence in the fossil record supporting one species evolving into another? Where is the ape-man? And why did he die out and not the inferior ape?

There are many questions of this sort for which evolution has no answer. The history of the theory also leaves it very suspect as it arose when European nations were vying for world dominance, and biological and cultural inferiority theories were among the means to achieve that end.

Peculiar when you find the German Neanderthal man was thinking and talking while his African predecessors like Australopithecus were grunting and growling. When Piltdown Man, Cro-Magnon man and Lucy were proven to be shams, it cast serious doubt on the intentions of the theorists of evolution. Louis Pasteur empirically proved that life only comes from preexisting life. All the science since then has not falsified that claim. The Bible aside, let's take a hard look at evolution for what it is.

Hiram Smith

UNM student