While I appreciate Evan Wiggs’ opinion in the Feb. 10 letter, “Any theory can be discredited,” it’s easy to disagree for many reasons.
I am a Christian. While I understand the passion of others, I refuse to be ignorant regarding other religions or evolution. I’ve read the Bible over my lifetime. I’ve also read books on church history, theology and world religions. I refuse to settle on prayer to explain glaring inconsistencies others call myths or even lies in The Bible.
I see the hand of God in the beauty of microscopic critters and plants in a drop of pond water, a 300-foot tall redwood sequoia, even the jump of a Coho salmon. I especially see it in fossils I’ve collected on Puget Sound and Oregon beaches, from a time called the Miocene Epoch. A given is that a background in botany and zoology also means a roomful of books on the sciences, with an emphasis on the biological sciences, geology, paleontology and cosmology.
It’s sad, some people’s unwillingness to not appreciate the views of thousands of scientists fashioned from countless and endless days and years and centuries of observations, and data collection in the field, of tireless lab work; the development of hypotheses, generation of theories, peer review, acceptance, but also challenges to theories. It’s called the scientific method.
