Evolution is a theory, not a scientific fact

Dear Editor,

I would like to offer a few comments regarding the recent letters to the editor regarding intelligent design versus evolution. First of all, evolution is not a scientific fact, as was asserted by one writer. It is a theory. There are in fact many missing pieces of evidence or "links" as they are often called. If evolution started with a one-cell organism (or even smaller), where did that come from? Where did the universe come from? Evolution really has no answer. It will tell you about the Big Bang [Theory] and other things, but it has no answer for where all of this matter originally came from. It was just there. At the very best, it is nothing more than a theory.

If you believe in evolution, do you look at an airliner crossing the sky high overhead and think that perhaps it evolved from some junkyard? If not, how can you look at the human body which is infinitely more complex than an airliner and suppose that it evolved from a one-cell organism? Just as it is very reasonable to believe that there was a design team for something with the complexity of an airliner, why is it suddenly ridiculous to look at the human body and insist that it all happened by mere chance? Such logic requires more faith than intelligent design.

J. Trent Corbett

Midlothian