Letter: Glad company

Dr. Allen Malnak stated in his letter that “those scientists who claim that intelligent design is a science which has discovered that cell structure requires design, are minuscule in number compared to the thousands of scientists who disagree.” I don’t have time to do a research paper on the number of scientists through the ages who believed in intelligent design, but, historically, most of the great scientists believed in intelligent design.

Here’s a short list:

Physics: Newton, Faraday, Maxwell and Kelvin

Chemistry: Boyle, Dalton, Pascal and Ramsay.

Biology: Ray, Linnaeus, Mendel and Pasteur.

Geology: Steno, Woodward, Brewster and Agassia.

Astronomy: Kepler, Gallileo, Herschel and Mounder.

The doctor also speaks of academics.

Webster’s 1828 dictionary defines “Academic: n. One who belonged to the school, or adhered to, the philosophy of Socrates and Plato. The latter is considered as the founder of the academic philosophy of Greece. He taught that matter is eternal and infinite, but without form, refractory, and tending to disorder; and that there is an intelligent cause, the author of spiritual being, and of the material world. Plato (427-347 B.C.E.) was one of the most important thinkers and writers in the history of Western culture.”

Plato contended that there was an “intelligent cause” for matter changing from its “natural tendency to disorder” into form and organization.

I’ll let you make up your mind who’s right.

Probably only eternity will reveal the truth.

Jerry Rutherford/Naples