I was amused reading Prof. Peter J. Lamb’s article in the Jan. 14 Norman Transcript. He implied that creationists (people of faith in Jesus Christ and His Creation) are responsible for the lowly economic status of Oklahoma. He implied that Christians endanger our excellence in country music and football. If all Okies believed in his religion of evolution we would be in economic nirvana and might even have beaten Boise State in that last Bowl game!

One of the 20th century’s most cultured and scientific countries, Nazi Germany, had evolution as their national policy. Hitler hated Christianity and was a ruthless hyper-evolutionist whose admiration of Darwinism and Nietzsche caused him to murder of millions of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, and mentally defective people. Hitler’s evil book “Mein Kampf” is full of the word Entwicklung (evolution).

Our military (the “Greatest Generation”) were the victors over Germany and Japan in WW II. Their generation and mine were basically untainted by the teaching of evolution. Not until the 1960s was our culture hijacked by the religion of evolution. When the Russians launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957, biology professors joined the “hue and cry” that the “Russians were ahead of us in science.” They convinced the National Science Foundation in 1959 to give them $14 million of our tax dollars to cram a lot of evolution into biology books and also teach sex education and the need for legalizing abortion. Evolution has nothing to do with putting a satellite into orbit. I know because I taught rocket science at OU and was part of the design team at McDonnell Aircraft that built the Mercury capsule, our first manned space ship. It’s all based on thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and Newtonian mechanics.

By the early 1960s there was a full court press on teaching high school and college students evolution. As one newspaper columnist wrote, if you teach kids they evolved from animals they will behave like animals. That is the fruit of evolution. The U.S. Statistical Abstract from the early ’60s to the ’80s shows serious crime and social problems took off like a rocket. Serious crime went up over 500 percent, birth rates for young unwed mothers increased by about 190 percent, venereal diseases increased by about 350 percent, SAT scores fell from about 970 to 890.

Concerning Lamb’s statements of billions and millions of years for the age of the earth, man and dinosaurs. No one knows for certain any of the ages. I have in my book (“A Scientific Analysis of Genesis”) a list of over 80 Uniformitarian Estimates of the earth’s age, all are less than billions of years. The earth’s magnetic field is decaying so fast that it couldn’t be more than 10,000 years old. Helium is pouring into the atmosphere from radioactive decay, but not much is escaping. The total amount is only 1/2000th of that expected if the atmosphere were billions of years old. Salt is pouring into the oceans much faster than it is escaping. The sea is not salty enough for it to be billions of years old. Radioactive dating methods have been found to be totally unreliable. Volcanic rocks formed in 1986 during the Mount St. Helens eruption were dated by the potassium-argon method to be 0.35 million years old. Similar anomalies were discoveries in other volcanoes in the Pacific.

In a stunning rebuttal of Lamb’s 65 million years for the youngest age of dinosaurs, Mary Schweitzer, of Montana State University found red blood cells and soft fibrous tissue in the leg bone of a T. rex dinosaur. (New Scientist, 24 March 2005). This blood and soft tissue could not have lasted more than a few thousand years.

There are no proofs of life arising from inorganic material. The Urey-Miller experiments were found worthless and discarded years ago. There are no proofs of macroevolution. Darwin tried. He came up with his gemmule theory, but no gemmules were ever found. The Nobel Prize winner for penicillin, Sir Ernest Chain, scornfully denounced his “Survival of the Fittest” theory as nothing but a truism and not to be taken seriously.

Haeckel (one of the founders of the Nazi party) in 1868 attempted to rescue Darwinism with his embryo drawings but they were discovered to be fakes. Prof. Richard Goldschmidt failed to prove macroevolution after 25 years of mutation experiments on fruit flies in Berlin and University of California. His book “The Material Basis for Evolution” (1940) literally tore to pieces the mutation theory of evolution. He proposed a new theory he called the “Hopeful Monster Mechanism” (i.e. an alligator laid an egg and a turkey hatched out!). Of course it had to happen twice in order to have male and female. Harvard’s Stephen Gould (1972) and John Hopkins Steven Stanley (1972) dressed up the “Hopeful Monster Mechanism” with more scientific names, “Punctuated Equilibrium” and “Quantum Speciation.” The Russians renamed it “Saltation Theory.”

The prize theory belongs to Sir Francis Crick (co-discoverer of the DNA molecule). He concluded the mathematical probability of DNA forming by chance was zero. Being an atheist, he gave up on evolution forming life on earth, and pushed it back to outer space. His theory, “Panspermia” (1981) assumed some unknown alien deposited sperm on some planet in outer space (Krypton?) and life formed there. They built a “Noah’s Ark” rocket ship and traveled a long journey to earth and unloaded people, animals, plants, trees, fish and birds on the earth. This sounds like the old Alf TV show.

Since evolution has never been proved scientifically, it must be believed by faith. Hence it is a religion. Colin Patterson, the senior paleontologist at the British Museum spent a lifetime studying fossils. In 1981 he stated that after 20 years of research he was ready to give up on evolution, because he had not been able to come up with one thing that proved it. Dr. Lynn Margolis, distinguish professor at the University of Massachusetts asked an audience of molecular biologists if they could name one unambiguous example of the formation of a new species by accumulation of mutations. Their answer … silence. Dr. Margolis predicted that history would judge neo-Darwinism as a minor 20th century religious sect.

Edward Blick is an adjunct professor of engineering. He taught his first class at OU in 1958. At various times he was the associate dean of engineering and a professor in engineering, medicine and meteorology. He published over 150 articles in these fields and two textbooks. He has given hundreds of lectures on Creationism versus Evolution and has participated in two debates (at OU and Iowa State).