In Adam Fleming’s column last week, he spoke on the topics of creationism in public schools…. In Adam Fleming’s column last week, he spoke on the topics of creationism in public schools. The main thrust of his argument is that by taking off a sticker on a textbook, somehow we are all better off intellectually because the religious dogma that the sticker implies will not be read by any students eager for a different view of origins.

It is helpful to note that the sticker does not mention any religious group or belief and that it promotes freethinking and challenges all ideas on origins. He went on to imply that creationism and its politically motivated brainchild, intelligent design, are religiously motivated and thus should keep their biased dogma out of public schools across the country.

To prove creationists and evolutionists are not the only ones who are biased and dogmatic with their theories, I submit to you some shocking news from the world of evolutionary dogma. Here, it will be plain to see that the data does not support evolution in its current form; it will no doubt change with the winds again.

And I quote, “The fossilized remains of a small dinosaur (psittacosaur) have been found in the belly of a dog-like mammal named Repenomamus robustus. Researchers have also found a second fossil that they have named Repenomamus giganticus. This second fossil has been described as ‘breathtaking’ and ‘about the size of a modern dog.’ This is a real surprise for evolutionists because evolutionary assumptions say that mammals living during the so-called ‘age of the dinosaurs’ couldn’t possibly have been that big; rather, they had to be small to better avoid the huge reptiles. It has some evolutionary scientists quite concerned, for it challenges what they have believed for years” (AnswersinGenesis.org).

Oh, it gets better … “Already, speculation is rampant that this find supports the dino-to-bird stories of animal evolution. The statement by Duke University paleontologist Anne Weil that “maybe small dinosaurs got larger” or got off the ground “to avoid rapacious mammals” shows how the evolutionary bias drives their interpretation of the evidence” (AnswersinGenesis.org).

All right, now we all can see how a philosophical presumption biases evolution scientists to certain conclusions. An unbiased look at this evidence would sound something like this, “Holy cow, all these years we thought mammals evolved millions of years later. Now we find one much earlier in the fossil record. Perhaps we should reevaluate our axioms and see if we are not wrong there.”

However, such unbiased thinking does not occur. Notice how they are now trying to use this evidence, which challenges their current view of evolution and origins, and twist it to support the now defunct dino-to-bird theory. Just a little reminder that we all are biased. Just because it gets more airtime in national media, more funding on college campus research facilities and more support by liberal journalists (no offense, Adam Fleming) does not, by any means, make it more truthful.

Derek W. West, Jr.

CGS Science

Senior