In her April 24 letter, “Science takes faith, too,” Lynette Turner writes, “It has always bothered me when I read an article and people are misrepresenting what science is.” Amen.

Evolution is a fact. Evolution is defined to be a change in allele frequencies in a population over time.

This happens; thus evolution is a fact.

Calling something a theory doesn’t make it go away; relativity is also “just” a theory.

Creationism fails as a theory for several reasons. A scientific theory has to make falsifiable predictions in order to be useful at all.

However, creationism doesn’t predict anything and can’t be proven wrong because it relies on a supernatural agent.

Science only concerns itself with natural phenomena, so God is outside of its jurisdiction, so to speak.

The predictions that the Bible does make about biology are mostly false.

Check out Genesis 30:37-39 to see how breeding works.

Irreducible complexity is a cop-out.

What if Louis Pasteur had declared that the poliovirus was irreducibly complex and stopped studying it? We would have NONE of the scientific advances that we have today if scientists gave up when their work got too complex.

Finally, if you find it hard to believe that life arose out of inorganic compounds, ask yourself this: What is dust?

Keith W. Twombley

Sophomore

Computer science and philosophy