Ms. Hasche, maybe it’s a good thing that evolution doesn’t supply an explanation of how life began. We only try to explain what we can with our somewhat limited knowledge of what has happened on our planet since its inception billions of years ago. Would you prefer we just make up something to complete our explanation of life on this planet? Oh, wait, then we’d be more like religion than anything else. It’s ludicrous to think that since the thought process isn’t whole, the whole theory is flawed.

You attack evolution for not having any proof, but yet you advocate an idea that is believed simply because some guys wrote about it a long time ago, and if you don’t believe it then you go to hell. Thanks for representing your ideas, but your letter has little to no merit. I prefer to use a little logic mixed with some awareness of what goes on around us. Survival of the fittest is what drives evolution. The virus that causes the common cold survives because it mutates so fast that we can’t find a cure for it. This virus is not the same one that was contracted by humans a thousand years ago. It is an evolved form. I hope you get the point, because I don’t have the time nor the space to give you the endless other examples.

Finally, I realize that the theory of evolution hasn’t been around for the 4.5 billion years of earth’s life, but it has been around longer than the 7 days it took God to create the universe.

Jared Strong

Junior

Computer Science