Evolution more like ‘science fiction’

By Letter to the Editor on November 30, 2017.

Re: “Proof of evolution found in fossils,” Nov. 25

As an amateur fossil hunter for about 40 years I beg to differ with the letter writer.

The first thing to mention is a quote by the science editor of National Geographic magazine.

“Everybody knows fossils are fickle, bones will sing any song you want to hear.” Interesting.

The letter writer uses a bird fossil (Archaeopteryx) as an example. However, closer analysis of this fossil has shown it had all the characteristics of modern birds — plus teeth. But it is no reptile.

The journal Science has written “Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an Earthbound feathered dinosaur. But it’s not. It is a bird, a perching bird, and no amount of paleobabble is going to change that.”

This is only one example of misinformation posing as science. There are many more. Yesterday’s proof of evolution ends up in the wastebasket.

Now let’s go back to the beginning of life.

British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle calculated the probability of spontaneous generation. “The likelihood of the foundation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 noughts after it. It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup neither on this planet nor any other and if the beginnings of life were not random they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.”

There are only two possibilities. Sir Fred Hoyle is only one of many scientists to have exposed the unscientific procedures underlining the beliefs of evolution. It is more like science fiction.

Slim Metz

Medicine Hat