{"id":1521,"date":"2012-04-22T08:47:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T12:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2012-04-22T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T12:54:09","slug":"dueling-letters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"Dueling letters"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been an interesting series of letters in the Naples Daily News these past few weeks about evolution and creationism. It started with Dr. Malnak’s letter April 11<\/a> in which he promotes evolution and dismisses creationism. Mr. Dudley then attacks Malnak’s arguments<\/a> by claiming that DNA studies show how impossible it is for humans to have evolved from chimps due to “6 billion nucleotides that must be haphazardly rearranged to change the monkey into human.” Mr. Harvey points out<\/a> that Dudley is in error: “That ‘explanation’ shows you have little knowledge of evolution.” And Mr. Stoler writes<\/a> “No one said we evolved from apes or chimps.” Mr. Sernovitz also says<\/a> Dudley is ignorant about evolution.<\/p>\n

It’s fun to be able to read the whole sequence of letters online like that. Even more entertaining are the readers’ comments at each of those links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been an interesting series of letters in the Naples Daily News these past few weeks about evolution and creationism. It started with Dr. Malnak’s letter April 11 in which he promotes evolution and dismisses creationism. 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