Creationists not 'whackadoo'
I would like to congratulate Sentinel executive editor Greg Bean. It's not every day that someone fulfills Holy Scripture, but Bean pulled it off in his weekly Red State/Blue State debate with Dave Simpson in the Dec. 12 issue.

The Bible speaks of doubters and scoffers in the last days and Bean "scoffed" at creation - God creating the heavens and the earth - in his column.

Bean crossed the line in his column and it is time to debate our origins at Christmas time, which is the perfect time of year to discuss Bean's view of man's origins (evolution) vs. the views ofmillions of God-fearing people (creation).

If someone wants to believe the modern-day crock known as evolution and keeps it to himself, that's fine with me. But when an evolutionist such as Bean pokes fun at a presidential candidate because he believes in creation, well, the gloves have to come off!

Bean called Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee a "whackadoo" and then immediately criticizes Huckabee's stance on creation.

In other words, any of you out there who believes that God created the heavens and the earth over a six-day period, as stated in the Book of Genesis, is a "whackdoo."

The fact that Bean writes this - around Christmas - makes this debate more interesting. The whole basis for Christmas - the birth of Jesus Christ and its true meaning, not the "holidays," Greg - deals with man's standing before God.

Creation declares that God created Adam and Eve - the first two people, both made perfect in the eyes of God- but they blew it by sinning against Him. Soon after, God declared in Genesis that He would send a Savior to make things right with Him once again, which is what Christ did at Calvary on Good Friday.

The theory of evolution, on the other hand, is the exact opposite of creationism. Evolution arrogantly declares that the earthwas formed by random chance, which to me and many, many other people, is impossible.

You could place all of the fragments of a pocket watch on your kitchen table. Over the course of millions of years, that watch is not going to form itself. It needs someone to put it together. It needs a creator, just like the heavens and the earth did many years ago.

Evolution also declares that manwas at one time a speck in the ocean before, over millions of years, mankind somehow evolved andmade its way ashore. So out of a blob in the ocean, each one of us formed muscle sinews, acquired the ability to talk and laugh, and came up with dozens of muscles in the eyes that help us to see. And believing THAT doesn't make you a "whackadoo?"

The interesting thing about evolution is that it is not even good science but is believed anyway. Science involves conducting experiments, collecting data, analyzing it and making observations and conclusions. Digging up old bones of humans, apes and dinosaurs doesn't prove evolution.

If you truly celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ this Christmas, you must realize that you cannot tie both Jesus and evolution together. They are diametrically opposed to one another!

Jesus says mankind sinned, he paid the penalty, and you now need to put your hope in him for eternal salvation. By the way, Jesus quoted Genesis many times. Christ was a creationist.

Evolution declares that mankind is evolving every day and getting better and better. In that case, who needs a Savior?

We proclaim this Godless dogma in schools to our children as fact - even though Darwin himself called evolution merely a theory.

And now, we get a newspaper executive editor calling anyone who believes in the God of creation as "whackadoo."

I pray that this Christmas season, Bean and evolutionists like him would stop being so closeminded and open their hearts to Christmas and its true meaning.

Joe Hofmann,

Colonia