A letter to the editor from Indianapolis, just because:

Evolution can’t be proven and tested, either

In defense of state Sen. Dennis Kruse [who pushed the recent Indiana Senate bill introducing creationism into schools], he does understand how science works. Bill Sullivan’s (Letters, Jan. 31) statement that the bedrock principle of the scientific method is the generation of a testable hypothesis, which creation stories cannot provide, applies equally to the theory of evolution. The theory of macroevolution where one organism can morph into an entirely different one has not been shown even once let alone duplicated in monitored experiments. Show me how a catfish is turned into a cat.

They rely on the untestable assumptions that long periods of time and chance are needed. Chance is a mathematical probability, which has no means of retaining, and analyzing information needed to prefect a complex organism. Only a superior intelligence is capable of designing a living cell that can reproduce itself, check for and correct mistakes in that reproduction process.

The Big Bang and evolutionary theories both have a lot of untested hypotheses. If they were thoroughly tested, they would be laws and not theories. The fact is that neither creationism nor evolution can be tested because they are interpretations of past historical events, and an unobserved historical event cannot be repeatedly tested.

Don Paul

Indianapolis