After reading "Considering Creationism offers interesting insight," (CT, Feb. 17) I felt compelled as an "ill-informed" person to write the editor explaining why creationists refute the theory of evolution.
When Darwin was living, cells were believed to be very simple -- in fact no one even knew about DNA (the blueprints of all living things). DNA is a very complicated structure and to assume that it evolved from non-living matter without seeing this occur is blindly accepting the notion. Secondly, carbon dating has proven inaccurate when used in testing dates of recent events. Everyone has heard about the Mount St. Helen's eruption, but few have heard that current carbon dating puts that eruption not at 19 years but at thousands of years.
However this same dating is relied upon to map out evolution. Some have tried to calibrate it to tree specimens using ring counting, however all specimens discovered have been under 10,000 years.
I do not believe that is a coincidence.
Thirdly, life has never been created in experiments. Seeds have been replicated to be chemically and physically similar to normal seeds, however they never grow nor do they show any signs of life.
As for the mention of the Vatican's views, not all creationists are Catholic; I am an independent Baptist.
Travis S. Anderson
sophomore,
aerospace engineering