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one of my local papers, the Daily Herald, often prints these wingnut letters to get responses from people... they love generating controversy...
this is a particularly funny letter
link: http://www.dailyherald.com/opinion/fencepost.asp
Bill Deckard from Winfield, IL has just proven that evolution is COMPLETELY FALSE using high school math!!!!
if you want to write a response, you can email it to fencepost@dailyherald.com
if your letter is reasonably intelligent, signed and you include your mailing address and phone number for confirmation, they will probably print it...
I have had many letters printed.
I'm not going to write a response to this guy. But I thought you guys would find this letter entertaining.
this is a particularly funny letter
Math works against theory of evolution
Evolutionists believe that life developed gradually, over millions of years, as a result of billions of random mutations, most of which were for the worse but some of which produced new life forms that survived, reproduced and evolved into ever-higher life forms.
The impossibility of this theory is exposed when we remember something we learned in high school math. I refer to the formula for calculating the number of ways a given number of items can be combined. For instance, if you place four items in a row, there are 24 ways in which you could arrange them. The formula for this is 1x2x3x4=24. If you have five items, you could arrange them in 120 ways (1x2x3x4x5=120). Six items would allow 720 possible combinations (1x2x3x4x5x6=720). Incredibly, if you have just 10 items, you could arrange them in more than 3 million ways! And 12 items could be combined in nearly a half-billion ways!
Now, consider that a single living cell has a billion letters in its DNA code. If a mere 12 items allows a half-billion combinations, how many mutations might those billion DNA letters have to go through before finding just the right combination to produce life? And how long might that take, assuming the slow and usually counterproductive process envisioned by evolution theory? And remember, we’re talking about just one cell.
The formula for combinations shows that the probability of evolution producing even the most rudimentary form of life is essentially zero.
Bill Deckard
Winfield
Evolutionists believe that life developed gradually, over millions of years, as a result of billions of random mutations, most of which were for the worse but some of which produced new life forms that survived, reproduced and evolved into ever-higher life forms.
The impossibility of this theory is exposed when we remember something we learned in high school math. I refer to the formula for calculating the number of ways a given number of items can be combined. For instance, if you place four items in a row, there are 24 ways in which you could arrange them. The formula for this is 1x2x3x4=24. If you have five items, you could arrange them in 120 ways (1x2x3x4x5=120). Six items would allow 720 possible combinations (1x2x3x4x5x6=720). Incredibly, if you have just 10 items, you could arrange them in more than 3 million ways! And 12 items could be combined in nearly a half-billion ways!
Now, consider that a single living cell has a billion letters in its DNA code. If a mere 12 items allows a half-billion combinations, how many mutations might those billion DNA letters have to go through before finding just the right combination to produce life? And how long might that take, assuming the slow and usually counterproductive process envisioned by evolution theory? And remember, we’re talking about just one cell.
The formula for combinations shows that the probability of evolution producing even the most rudimentary form of life is essentially zero.
Bill Deckard
Winfield
Bill Deckard from Winfield, IL has just proven that evolution is COMPLETELY FALSE using high school math!!!!
if you want to write a response, you can email it to fencepost@dailyherald.com
if your letter is reasonably intelligent, signed and you include your mailing address and phone number for confirmation, they will probably print it...
I have had many letters printed.
I'm not going to write a response to this guy. But I thought you guys would find this letter entertaining.
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