Sir,
A recent issue of the Tenby Observer carried a report entitled 'Feasibility study launched on science centre'. May I make some 'tongue in cheek' comments about some aspects of the Darwin Centre for Biology and Medicine?
(1) Are the consortium participants aware that in having any so-called 'sabbatical' centre, they are involving themselves in an advertisement for creation rather than evolution?
(2) Sabbatical is to do with sabbath, which is both a day of rest and also a holy day or holiday. Therefore, any suggestion of having any time off from the rat-race of present-day life will surely assist the weakest to survive. That is the opposite of only the survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence!
(3) Every week that passes is a memorial to six-day creation following the observance of God having rested on the Seventh Day.
(4) And what may I ask has evolution to do with 'inspired' original thought and 'creative' interactions?
(5) If only a fraction of the vast funding used to bolster the crumbling edifice of fossil evolution was to be spent on trying to grow new organs from a patient needing new parts, like God grew Eve from Adam's side, then medicine would be benefited. Yet that advance would not have been inspired by Darwin, but by a return to the Garden of Eden revealed technology in Genesis chapter two.
Gerald Duffett,
The Forge,
New Hedges.