05.29.2009 10:12 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Your editorial, Shaking the Family Tree (5/27/09), is profound in the suggestion that knowing the past is crucial to understanding who we are today. The latest missing link, a fossil found in a German quarry, is heralded by proponents of evolution…
04.09.2009 6:47 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
This is written in response to “Genetics, genealogy trace a mutation that has left legacy of colon cancer.,” run April 6, 2009. This is exactly the sort of thing that genetic research should be used for. Pushing the boundaries of…
03.18.2009 5:07 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
On March 9, 2009, President Obama lifted a ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. It was a move that many religious and pro-life groups were opposed to. I believe that the government should send more funding to…
02.19.2009 5:59 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The gentleman that wrote in last Sunday saying that Evolution is just a theory and therefore simply a belief system and nothing more, needs to learn what scientists mean by the word “theory”. To a scientist, a theory is not…
02.17.2009 5:00 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
William J. Momeno
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17 February 2009
EVOLUTION vs INTELLIGENT DESIGN
Science changes. Though the sciences are based on objective facts, the interpretation of these facts - the ways of tying them together into a coherent system - keeps…
02.16.2009 5:14 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The February 15 paper contains a letter which includes the following statement. “Science needs to be challenged in everything, not just to prove it wrong, but to force it to search for the truth.” I have a news flash for…
02.16.2009 5:12 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Post Dispatch has erred concerning the article on evolution (Darwin’s Sin, February 8). According to the scientific method, the theory is neither proved nor provable. Nevertheless, I deeply regret the Post’s disappointment at the low rate of acceptance. A…
02.11.2009 5:41 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When may the conclusions of an investigation or inquiry be properly regarded as scientifically acquired knowledge?
For a very long time science has been a marriage of not just what you know, but how you know it. Over the centuries the…
02.10.2009 4:28 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A recent commentary on your OPINION page, titled “Darwin’s Sin” contains a significant error. The error does not pertain to Darwin, but involves the article’s brief discussion of plate tectonics or continental drift.
Your article states that the theory of…