Letter: Educated people can believe in Divine Creator

Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 | 9:12 a.m.

Professor David Mills' July 24 commentary, "Teach children scientific theory, not myths," was informative as he explained scientific principles. His last statement that "educated and informed people" do not believe in creationism, however, is false.

For example, Sir Francis Bacon! He is credited with formulating and establishing the scientific method. And what about Newton, Pasteur, Linnaeus, Faraday, Pascal, Lord Kelvin, Maxwell and Kepler? Their research and analyses led to the very laws and concepts of science that brought about our modern scientific age; they also believed in a Divine Creator.

More recently, on May 12, Dr. Philip Skell, a renowned chemist from Penn State University, wrote an open letter to the Kansas State Board of Education. Writing in his capacity as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, he said, "None of the great discoveries in biology and medicine over the past century depended on guidance from Darwinian evolution -- it provided no support."

Creationist scientists have made and continue to make significant contributions to the scientific community. Let us not shortchange our children by teaching them evolution as fact. Rather, let us encourage them to look at the fossil record and see what evidence it presents. They will see no transitional fossil forms -- a linchpin for evolutionary theory to be true.

MARSHA NORTON