To the editor:

Leonard Krishtalka’s columns are always enjoyable to read. He has great faith in his beliefs.

In science class, we learned that billions of years ago in the ooze, spontaneous generation occurred. Asked how this could happen because spontaneous generation was disproved centuries ago, the wise response was always, “Given enough time, energy and chance anything can happen.”

These same learned teachers would use the example of stuffing 100 monkeys into a room with 100 typewriters, and, given enough time Shakespeare’s plays would be perfectly typed. Thus evolution is proven to be scientific. Sounds like blind faith.

Darwin wrote about the simple cell. Molecular scientists have discovered the simple cell is more complex than anything man has ever built. Our greatest scientists can’t explain it or duplicate it, yet they want us to believe it just happened by chance. This is blind faith, not science.

Our antibiotics aren’t working because bacteria are evolving, they say. Yet with thousands of generations of bacteria, we have observed they have not evolved into anything other than the bacteria they were thousands of generations earlier.

They tell us their theories on what happened millions of years ago and tell us it has to be scientific and true because they say so. Because there are no tests to prove the theories one way or the other and they are scientists then it has to be true. Thus evolution is proved.

Krishtalka wants us to believe so badly, but many of us one-time believers have grown tired of “blind faith.”

Stan Helweg,

Eudora