Letters to the editor for Wednesday, May 18, 2016

A word on Darwin’s natural selection theory

Without getting into the argument between Fred LaSor and Rick Van Alfen, I feel compelled to correct Mr. Alfen on one point. He wrote, “And I look forward to the end of the prejudiced mind based on religious or racist’s beliefs. When reason and education supplant blind faith in the supernatural. Sort of like Darwin’s natural selection theory ...”

First of all, Darwin plagiarized the theory of natural selection. Edward Blyth wrote three major articles on natural selection that were published in “The Magazine of Natural History” from 1835 to 1837. The University of Cambridge, England, has Darwin’s own copies of the issues containing the Blyth articles, with Darwin’s handwritten notes in the margins.

Secondly, I would recommend the book, “The Darwin Effect,” by Jerry Bergman, which details how the theory of evolution led to Nazism, eugenics, racism, communism, capitalism and sexism. Genocide as a result of Darwinism far exceeds even the Christian crusades and today is killing babies.

Thirdly, it takes much more blind faith to believe that the universe popped into existence without a cause, that life came from non-life without a cause, that the complexity of the genetic code developed without a cause than to believe there is a Creator Cause to everything.

Natural selection doesn’t help evolution at all. It only explains how species developed within kinds. It does not account for how one kind became another kind.

Finally, if Jesus Christ had not come, the world would be even worse than it is today.

Don Drake

Carson City