To the editor:

The essence of Darwinism lies in a single phrase: Natural selection is the creative force of evolutionary change. Natural selection plays a role eliminating the unfit. Darwin’s theory requires it create the fit as well. Natural selection is not a creative force that promotes speciation.

Some say support for evolution can be found in bacteria that acquire resistance to antibiotics. This is not an example of speciation, but of micro-evolution, change within a kind. A staphylococcus acquiring resistance to an antibiotic is still a staphylococcus, not a different kind of bacterium. There is evidence these bacterium changes are natural. Example: Well preserved bodies of the Franklin Expedition, frozen in the Canadian Arctic in 1845, contain bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Antibiotics were first developed about a hundred years later. Contamination has been completely ruled out, thus these bacteria could not have evolved in response to antibiotics.

If any change is to take place turning one organism to another more complex kind, it must add new information to that organism’s DNA. However this has not been observed. Existing information may be modified, lost, or even exchanged between bacteria, but never created.

Charles Walcott discovered the Cambrian Period Explosion containing fossils representing every animal phylum, the basic anatomies of all animals alive today. Following this explosion 550 million years ago, no new phyla ever appeared. Macro-evolution evidence is needed.

Darwin observed the lack of transitional forms within the fossil record as a serious objection against his theory.

David Reynolds,

Lawrence