Florida legislators going ape over evolution

All teachers and parents in New Smyrna Beach must realize that having state legislatures or courts rule on scientific matters is incredibly silly. The spectacle of legislators ruling on what science can be taught in Florida schools demonstrates one more time one of the basic problems of having public schools: Namely that the state will eventually dictate what is taught.
Our legislators opined that it would be OK to question some of the concepts of The theory of evolution. Well bully for them. We should be forever grateful that they will let us question evolution.

There is hardly any scientific theory that is not undergoing upgrading and change.

Even the venerable Newtonian mechanics which works so beautifully for virtually everything we are familiar with has been upgraded to account for relativistic and other effects.

Returning to evolution, we note that evolution takes place all around us. Germs mutate to avoid our antibiotics, fleas become immune to our flea sprays, we breed better crops and the list goes on.

Nobody would deny that constant incremental changes go on in the various species.

The argument lies with the creation of the various different species of life and plant forms and how they come about. The evolutionists theories fall short when they try to explain the creation of species by random mutations.

First of all, there is scant, if any, solid evidence indicating that one species has evolved into another species. So far there appears to be a “shortage” of missing links both in the plant and animal kingdoms. This doesn’t mean they aren’t there it just means we haven’t found them.

The second more serious problem lies in the numbers. A major body organ is determined by a DNA strand that can have thousands of molecules.

This means that the number of combinations of the corresponding DNA is expressed by a number with thousands of zeros after it. The number of seconds that have elapsed after the “Big Bang” is expressed with a number with “only” about 18 zeros.

This implies that there has not been enough time since the beginning of creation for “mother nature” to find these workable organs by a random mutation process.

There must be processes at work more powerful than random mutation to create the basic species of plants and animals.

An illustrative analogy for this problem comes from the daily cryptograms in the paper.

A newspaper cryptogram has approximately 4 times 10 to the 26th power possible keys which is a huge number. If the cryptogram solver had to try the different keys one at a time, randomly like the evolutionists say are used in nature to create life forms, cryptograms would be unsolvable.

However, using more powerful processes men women and children in New Smyrna solve these cryptograms in minutes.

In the same way, nature must be using more powerful methods to create life forms than random mutation. Finding these methods will be a major scientific breakthrough.

Students should be aware of these problems with the theory of evolution so they will be in a position to push our knowledge further.

Maybe someone studying biology right here in New Smyrna will be the first to find solid evidence of a missing link or discover more powerful algorithms for evolving life forms.

I guess we are lucky that the legislators decided to let us question evolution at least for now.

Whenever the government controls the school system, there is eventually state control of what is taught and everyone eventually suffers for it.