Article: LETTERS PAGE.(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)

Religious belief closely linked to scientific illiteracy

In his Sept. 26 commentary ``Will Genesis and evolution merge?'' Rabbi Hillel Goldberg made quite a few incorrect statements. He claimed that evolutionary biology does not have ``logic and evidence'' on its side. Unless the two words have changed in meaning lately, the statement is patently false. Evolution makes logical claims about past events based on evidence - fossils, dating of geological strata, etc.

Where else does Goldberg think science should look - perhaps in the ``truths'' of religion he mentions later on in the piece? What ``truths'' do religions possess that are ``totally ...

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