To the editor:
John Hoopes' point, (Public Forum, Oct. 23) concerning science, that "the problem may be with the observer," is the major failure of evolution. Evolutionists have determined in advance what can be true. That is why true science uses repeatability to remove observer bias. Where such bias cannot be removed there is no science.
Hoopes lists four criteria for soft sciences. But hard science uses experimentation to confirm research findings and eliminate observer bias, not merely to recreate "the observations and logic upon which they are based."
His principle of predictability establishes creationism. Creationists predicted findings that evolutionists would have dated to millions of years -- that were produced following the eruption of Mount St. Helens a few years ago.
Using the principle of parsimony, Leonard Krishtalka (J-W, Oct. 22) showed why pseudo science is not true science. Krishtalka misstated his second point -- "science, by definition, does not seek supernatural explanations for natural phenomena." What he meant was parsimony decrees that supernatural explanations CANNOT be accepted as the true explanation of natural phenomena. This rules out God a priori, and is not science.
What if God did create the universe? "Science," by its own vanity, has defined him from existence, and is unable to accept that possibility. THAT is the "one sentence history of the Enlightenment." It also is a one-sentence description of contemporary secular humanism. It is atheism forced upon science as "parsimony."
Todd Wilson,
Lawrence
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