Evidence can be found in science

LETTERS

John Van Liere (Dec. 31 letter to the editor) has demonstrated once more his profound misunderstanding of the Earth and its denizens, spurious evidence being presented such as the Biblical Job describing a “Behemoth” and suggesting this is a “dinosaur, when in fact any reasonable person would recognize a crocodile.

With a huge leap of faith (yes, “faith”), he further presents the coelacanth as evidence of a creationist force or at least evidence against evolution. That it is indeed described by some as a “living fossil” is true but its recent (re)discovery in the 1930s is not evidence of a creationist revelation but quite the opposite.

As with his earlier reference to a “living frog encased in stone,” a wellknown hoax to anyone else, he is incapable of presenting a rational, factual argument supported by observation and study.

His faith in the literal Bible and false assumptions equating evolution with atheism is a continuing, convoluted, meandering series of statements better reserved for the pulpit and yet his preaching continues unabated, at least through these columns.

No wonder his writings have come to the attention of the author of the word “bwahahahaha.” (Van Liere would do well to read the entire reasoning behind this labelling. Yet another falsehood is his assertion that the offending site is devoted to atheism — it is not.)

He asks for evidence. It is there if only he could remove his head from the Bible and actually study science, real science, not that of the creationist playbook.

Perhaps the greatest error of his latest missive is his question wondering why dinosaurs were “still here 4,000 years ago” (according to Job) when they “died out 75 million years ago.”

Let me assist you, John. Fact is they are still here in 2018 — they are called birds and yes, their immediate ancestors (dinosaurs) disappeared around 66 million years ago.

John P. Nightingale

Lethbridge