"Report Magazine" January 22, 2001
Prof. Jeffrey Shallit
Textbooks prove evolution
(12th letter)

Your article "Intelligent design theorists are winning the battle against
evolution" (Dec. 18) was a masterpiece of propaganda. Not surprising,
perhaps, because the "battle against evolution" is a political battle, not
a scientific one.

The intelligent design movement has failed to produce a single
peer-reviewed scientific publication outlining the theory. Experiments and
predictions are hallmarks of science, but no proponent of intelligent
design has proposed a single experiment to test it or a single prediction
that could be confirmed.

Your article was filled with nonsense, such as "the fossil record does not
support evolution" and "there is no evidence of a common ancestor of all
life on earth" that could be easily refuted by consulting a university
textbook on evolutionary biology. In addition, you failed to interview even
one scientist who would oppose the intelligent design position.

Prof. Jeffrey Shallit
Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ont.
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Note: In both the print and online editions, to the right of Shallit's
letter is the cover from "Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction" by
Roger Lewin. Beneath the cover is the caption:

[Proof of evolution: Any textbook fits the pieces together nicely.]
 

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