Letters to the editor: May 30, 2012

Stephen Jay Gould was a die-hard evolutionist. He examined a lot of fossils, looking for the intermediate forms that would back up the idea of gradual evolutionary change.

He did not find the evidence and instead of recognizing that these creatures were designed and made by an intelligence vastly superior to his own, he came up with so-called “punctuated equilibrium,” where these random changes to new forms occurred in big jumps, but with no clear idea as to what caused the big jumps.

He died in May of 2002, and I guarantee he now knows who and what designed and formed this wide variety of living forms.

The idea that living forms came about by the random motion of molecules does not fit in with what I know about chemistry.

Many of the molecules that go to make up the walls of a living cell have a specific shape that is recognized as either left-handed or right-handed.

When a chemist synthesizes amino acids in the laboratory, he gets a mixture of left-handed and right-handed amino acids. The living cell can only use one kind.

There is no way that random motions of this mixture of chemicals could produce the proteins necessary for a living cell. In fact, I just queried the National Science Foundation and discovered that they currently have over one thousand active research grants to study how the cells work.

Why all this study? Surely they know by now how these things work. The theory of evolution is not based on science, but on a desire to get away from being responsible to our creator, the vastly more intelligent original designer.

Cecil Garrett, chemist
Winchester

Death penalty is the only option

I hope and pray the woman, Lillie Stanton, gets the death penalty. I race back and forth in my mind as a Christian to try and forgive this woman, but I can’t. How can you take the life of anybody, much less your daughter and granddaughter? There is only one thing; the devil.

Now I am sure some attorney is going to use the insanity defense and in a way she has to be to do this.

But she knows right from wrong. When it comes judgement day I would love to see what she says. This woman needs to be put to death for this crime. But the sad thing is that if she does get the death penalty, we as taxpayers will be footing the bill for 20 years while they appeal.

Believe me, it’s hard for me not to forgive her, being a Christian, but I just can’t in this situtation Maybe I’ll pay one day for that, but this evil act needs no forgiveness.

God bless the little girl and her mother.

David Johnson
Winchester