Just to avoid any confusion, this letter was NOT written by me. It appeared in the latest issue of a local free newspaper that I frequently read.
I've not got the time at the moment to write a good rebuttal, but if anyone wants to take a stab at it, here is the email address of the editorial dept.
letters@alibi.com
I beleive you have to include a contact so that the alibi can get in touch with you should they publish your letter.
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I Only Know, That I Know Nothing
Dear Alibi,
In your review of the book Religion in the Modern American West by Ferenc Morton Szasz you state that the book contained "no awareness that evolution, like gravity, is a verifiable fact contending with a mishmash of creationist lies." Evolution a verifiable fact, like gravity? That's a preposterous statement.
Nobody knows what the truth is. Were you around when everything came into existence? There are theories, but nobody knows. It's when people try to make their beliefs out to be facts that things get ugly. How do you think all the religious wars and crusades came about? You walking around toting that evolution is a verifiable fact is the same thing as what the "Christian Right" people do with God.
The only fact is none of us know the truth. Any belief system, whether it be evolution, Christianity, Muslim, atheism or anything else require an enormous leap of faith. None of those belief systems have been proven 100 percent, irrevocably correct. If so, that'd be what almost everyone believed. The ones that refused would be the ones blinded by their own ideas. You don't have to be "Christian" to do that. Not only do you make false claims about what is and what is not verifiably correct, you also go on to slam Christians and their "creationist lies." It's a little ironic that two sentences later you criticize the author for not being objective.
Maybe you should take the plank out of your own eye before you point out the speck in someone else's?
Luke Heath
Albuquerque
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08-23-2002, 11:03 AM
A letter to the editor.
