Evolution left us up to our own devices

HOW good it was to read (June 7) Dr John F Harvey’s letter questioning Darwinian evolution. Unless we know exactly where to look, this is not something we are likely to read much about.

These days, evolution is generally presented as scientific fact and taught as such in our schools. And woe betide anyone who questions it even though it doesn’t qualify as observational science. Nevertheless, it is nothing but pure conjecture.

If you ask an evolutionist for the reason behind their thinking, the likely answer will be that it’s because they believe the theory has been proven and most other people believe the same.

But an evolutionary belief requires that at one point in time, life arose from non-life. This was something Louis Pasteur proved to be impossible. Life can only arise from life.

So why have we become so accepting of something which has no solid scientific foundation?

I suggest it’s mainly because the alternative is to believe in a Creator God (as per Genesis 1-11) as our ultimate authority. A God who has put all rules in place and can rightly expect them to be honoured, not only for His glory but for our good.

But we, in our wayward, secular humanistic way, believe we know best. So it’s convenient for us to accept the randomness of evolutionary theory even though it defies logic.

It allows us to believe what we want to believe. A world of no moral absolutes, where the dubious opinion of fallible man holds sway. And so we arrive at the state we are today.

Dr Harvey wonders what would be the effect if Darwin were alive today and presented his theory. Well, mankind hasn’t changed, and I suggest we would swallow it hook, line and sinker. RH Ashton Pengam, Blackwood