Professor Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis’ defense of evolution as more than theory, but a fully developed science, misses the boat of objectivism (“The Human Mind; Enhance/evolve; Evolution isn’t merely a theory: It’s a fully developed science,” Perspective, March 13) .
Smocovitis, who teaches the history of science in the departments of zoology and history at the University of Florida, cites the change of bacteria and viruses as being “evolutionary” when, in fact, the change is “adaptive.”
The change would be evolutionary if there was proof of a cross between species.
And so far she, her recently departed evolutionary hero, biologist Ernst Mayr, and others have yet to come up with such a fossil. So in the interim, scientifically, the science of origins is still a matter of theory with evolutionists citing fossils with missing links between all species and with creationists citing an intelligent design.
In the interest of intellectual freedom, would it not be objective and fair to let our children learn both views for what they are–theories?
And let their parents take it from there. That is, if we still believe that the children belong to the parents and the parents bear the personal, ultimate responsibility for educating their children.
