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There were two letters in the Denver Post today promoting Intelligent Design.  The first letter makes the usual inane arguments, and the second one just quotes scripture. It would be great if CERT members rose to the occasion and submitted letters in response to the Denver Post.  I would suggest that challenges focus on the science and the importance of evolutionary theories for biology, medicine and the economic wellbeing of the U.S.  I would also suggest avoiding any attack on religion.  From my experience, even more important than countering specific arguments (you can just give them a website), it is critical that one makes it clear that evolutionary theories are not a threat, are critical for understanding biology and medicine, and are accepted by virtually every biologist/researcher who has done anything of value towards science.

I'm happy to read any drafts (and I bet David Pollock and Jeff Kieft would be too).

Here are the letters:

Posted January 3, 2010, 5:03 pm

Can science fully explain the complexity of life?

By DP Opinion

Re: “Correlation between education, religious belief,” Dec. 30 letter to the editor.

Letter-writer Alex Eckstein noted Mississippi had the lowest education level but the highest belief in God. The implication seemed to be that an educated person would not turn to religion.

Perhaps the “educated person” should spend a little time considering the implications of recent biological findings of the complexity of life. We now understand life’s DNA building blocks are unimaginably complex, and certainly could not have formed by random, unguided “evolutionary” forces. The mathematical odds against DNA jumpstarts via random and natural selection are too staggering to be viable or believable. Isn’t it interesting that as complex as the DNA for a human man is, evolutionists would claim that a perfect female complement for man would evolve at exactly the same point in time to allow for reproduction? Not likely.

If random evolutionary forces can’t account for life’s complexity, I would suggest that God can.

Steve Venzke, Loveland

Alex Eckstein attempts to make the claim that the more educated a person is, the less religious he/she will be. The Bible seems to have him and this warped thinking in mind with the following: Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children” (Matthew 11:25).

And then Paul wrote, “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God for it is written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.’ Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” (I Corinthians 1:18).

And David may have summed it up best in Psalm 14:1, “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ ”

Norbert H. Kleidon, Thornton