Sarah Palin, the future Vice President (President if 72-year-old John McCain dies in office) is an avowed Creationist and would likely concur that dinosaurs helped build the pyramids.
It is sobering to consider that the United States commands enough nuclear weapons to kill everyone on earth many times over. As President, Sarah Palin would have the power to launch a nuclear attack at will.
It used to be comforting to laugh at the lunatics who professed these beliefs. Now these same lunatics will soon have the power to annihilate us at will.

Mike Stamper
Windsor, CT,
USA

I don’t know anything more about Fenech than what appears in Raphael Vassallo’s piece on Creationism. He very well may be the doofus that Vassallo makes him out to be. Fenech is right about one thing, however. Until their extinction, dinosaurs did co-exist with humans.

G. F. Miller
Hagerstown, MD
USA

One does not have to believe the earth is only a few thousand years old to have questions about evolution. Children should learn about evolution and the facts that the theory cannot easily explain.
First fact: The Cambrian Explosion, the very short period in which most existing animal phyla appeared simultaneously. A phylum is the most basic division of the animal kingdom. Simultaneously in geological terms means in the same Cambrian fossil beds, within about 10 or 20 million years. Darwin himself was aware of the Cambrian Explosion and admitted that, if confirmed, it would be difficult to explain in terms of his theory of random mutation and natural selection.
Cambrian era fossils have now been found in many parts of the world in addition to Cambria. The most famous Cambrian era fossil bed is the Burgess Shale formation in western Canada.
Second fact: irreducible complexity. For example, consider the mouse trap; removing any part makes the entire device useless. Imagine that the mouse trap “evolved” with all parts except the spring. Since the entire device is useless without the spring, the “genes” for the other parts of the mouse trap confer NO selective advantage. There are many biochemical pathways and structures even in lowly bacteria that are irreducibly complex. The most famous examples are bacterial cillia and flagella, tiny structures like “oars” and “propellers” that many bacteria have. It is difficult to imagine a subset of these structures that would confer any selective advantage on the organism. Indeed, an incomplete structure would seem to be a disadvantage, like an oar dragged in the water during a sail boat race.
Please understand: problems with the theory of evolution do NOT prove the biblical version of creation.

Rich Carpenter
Via Email

“Also, the moon’s gravity is two thirds less than it is on Earth… which in turn means that dust is practically weightless, and therefore doesn’t settle.”
Geez, did you study physics at the Accelerated Christian Academy? So this dust that “is practically weightless” and “doesn’t settle” has been, what, floating around in the non existent lunar atmosphere for the last couple of billion years? Is it all orbiting the moon in the well-known “Lunar Rings”, kid brothers to the ones around Saturn?
Granted, Young-Earth Creationists take stupid to a whole new level, but before you write an article criticising their scientific illiteracy, you should check your facts lest you be accused of the same thing.

Alcamaeon Jones
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