Letter: The reason we cannot take Darwin's theory as gospel

This is not very scientific. Just because the theory of evolution is flavour of the month and many people believe it does not make it a fact, particularly as the more scientific discoveries made are turning more and more real scientists away from this unproven theory.

He rightly points out that the first law of thermodynamics is a fact because it has been tested and tried and always found to be true, that in a closed system matter can neither be created nor destroyed.

Does he believe Sir Fred Hoyle's Steady State theory that the universe has always existed? Or does he believe in the Big Bang theory which flies in the face of the first law of thermodynamics?

Unless he believes in a first cause, a being outside of the universe, who created everything from nothing, he is in a fix. The Bible tells us in the very first verse, that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." A few verses later it tells us that God finished His work of creation and rested on the seventh day. There are an increasing number of scientists who do believe that in six days God created all that was created. Their numbers run into many many thousands.

Darwin's theories make a very good narrative but not very good science.

The chances of getting just the 200 plus bones in the human body in the right order by chance are so infinitely small as to make this an impossibility.

The number of combinations for this are staggering, 1x2x3x4x5x6...x200! That would be written as 10 with 375 zeros.

Suppose the universe is 10 billion years old, and a new attempt to get them in the right order is made every second, there would only be time for 1,018 attempts!

His theory is so weak that it cannot stand on its own which is probably why any challenge to it in the school classroom or university lecture hall is forbidden by government and academia.

David Burton, Whitchurch