Dale Morejon is at again. He claims intelligent design is religion and evolution is science. He quotes Phillip Johnson, Professor of Law at Berkeley: "This isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science. It's about religion and philosophy." Morejon implies that Professor Johnson is referring to intelligent design. However, Professor Johnson, in his book Darwin on Trial, states that evolution is not science, but is religion and philosophy. Professor Johnson implies that evolution is much like creationism.

Evolution has three main components: genetics with its mutations, "natural selection," a mysterious force in nature that cherry picks mutations (most are detrimental) for nurturing and developing the aberrations for progressive development of the evolutionary tree and time, millions and millions of years to allow the altered organism to evolve.

But what is "natural selection"? It is a supernatural force, not unlike intelligent design. In reality, it was a figment of the imagination of Charles Darwin, first described in his 1858 book, "The Origin of Species." Natural selection has the same power as the magic wand of the Good Fairy in "The Wizard of Oz."

Natural selection is not testable, cannot be reproduced, and cannot be predicted. It serves only to explain, in retrospect, past developments in the chain of life. Since it is untestable and cannot be reproduced, it must be taken on faith. Natural selection is the basis of evolution and therefore evolution can be believed only through faith, basically as a religion.

Our society is somewhat schizophrenic. Intelligent design, an explanation supportive of Christianity is banned from the classroom, but evolution with natural selection, also basically a religion (humanism) is acceptable in a science class.

In summary, the Achilles heel of evolution is natural selection. It is not science, it is an explanatory myth used to gloss over the unknown, somewhat similar to intelligent design. Both are based on faith. Technically, both are religions. Why is one banned from the classroom and not the other? Truly schizophrenic!

Joseph McCormack, Gilroy

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