Contradictions in Taylor column

Dear editor: Re: “What you believe in affects what you do,” by Jim Taylor (Okanagan Weekend, Feb. 3). He quotes David Suzuki as being an evolutionist.

In his book, Metamorphosis, Suzuki claims that he has been a lifelong atheist. And that is astonishing.

Why has Suzuki, like biologist/atheist Richard Dawkins, never thought of software that describes all evolutionary and biological processes in nature, that are invisible, just like the software that drives our modern technology?

Don’t they require an intelligent source? Or does Suzuki believe, like Dawkins, who wrote in his book The God Delusion on page 73: “If he existed and chose to reveal it, God himself could clinch the argument noisily and unequivocally in his favour.”

Dawkins still seems to suffer from a “god in the sky” childhood bible indoctrination.

Because of limited higher education, after the Second World War in Germany, I escaped a lot of brainwashing, and had to educate myself from books, just like where professors get their information from, but always looked up to universities with respect until I read what David Suzuki said some time ago: “As a scientist I know how ignorant we are of the biological and physical world, yet we continue to cling to the lie that we know what we are doing. The truth is we have no idea...The universities are filled with old farts that haven’t had an original thought in 20 years.”

Well, I had first-hand experience recently when I wrote, individually, to 270 professors at UBCO, about relevant political, social and philosophical issues, to which they, obviously, have no solutions to offer eitherwise we wouldn’t have poverty, economic crimes and wars.

But, I could not elicit any interest from any PhD at UBCO. Oh, one Christian professor now prays for me. Shall I laugh or cry?

Gunther Ostermann

Kelowna