Evolution, March 26, 1997

This is a text of a letter to the editor that I sent to the Mensan, the magazine of the Mensa Society. It was sent on March 26, 1997, and a condensed form of the letter was published in the May issue.

(By way of information, I was born on July 4, 1947. That fact might make the reading a bit more interesting.)

I am a new member of Mensa, having joined in January. I found the letters column in the March Bulletin to be very interesting. I found the discussion of Creationism versus Evolution to be particularly interesting.

With apologies to both sides of the discussion, I would like to point out that they are both wrong. The universe was created on March 15, 1911 somewhere between 4:15:16 and 4:15:17 in the afternoon, Central Standard Time. It is interesting to note that it was created with all sorts of rocks that look like bones buried at various places and various depths. Also, with ready built towns and houses, and with probably about a billion and a half people. Of particular note are the libraries built with billions of books briming with fictitious stories that claimed to be true.

Some people may disagree with me on this. They will say, "See the stars. Light has been traveling for millions of years to reach here." I will say that there are no stars. The light was created in transit. Actually, the light will run out on July 4, 2018, between 2:18:55 and 2:18:56 in the morning, Centeral Standard time. I challenge anyone to show me an experiment proving this is not so that is less than about 21 years long.

I am reminded of an article from a Physics Journal that was pointed out to me about 1970. It was written by a well known Physicist (not being one, I cannot give a closer reference than that) and titled something like "An Apology to the Flat Earth Society." The author made the point that there was no conflict between the flat earth society and physics. The reason being that the flat earth society was talking about the truth, whereas physics dealt only with finding simple equations to explain the past and predict the future. The equations are much simpler if the physicist thinks in terms of a round earth, so that is the theory he would use, even if the world was, in fact, flat.

R.L. Fredrichson presents that evolution is science and creationism is not. I would present that they are both religions. Take your pick. I, personally, will stick with the fact that the universe was created in 1911, as I said above.