To the editor:

David Awbrey’s recent comments to the Kansas City Press Club are yet another demonstration of the dearth of understanding so many Kansans have, not only of science, but also of religion.

While it’s true that science – and thus evolution – is derived from metaphysics, it does not follow that science is a religion.

The frame of reference that religion provides is thought to be revealed, presumably by God. Science, on the other hand, is not revealed: It is the result of human inquiry.

Religion also usually provides an object of devotion, a code of ethics and a mythology of a supernatural world. Science provides none of those things.

Clearly, it is religion, not science, that claims “absolute knowledge of things that could well be beyond our intellectual capabilities to comprehend.”

Scott McDaniel,

Lawrence