OPINION:
I read with great interest Everett Piper’s recent column, “Trump’s ‘common sense’ and the death of the Democratic Party” (Web, March 9). In the piece, Mr. Piper describes the effects of a disorder among a significant portion of our citizens who believe that absolute truths simply do not exist. Rather, they think, most issues are either relative or simply matters of opinion.
In my early childhood in the 1940s and ’50s, there were many commonly accepted absolutes. What caused this to change over the past eight decades? In my opinion, it’s the gradual elimination God the Creator from our public square. And the root cause of that process has been the gradual and almost universal acceptance of the theory of evolution as the scientific explanation for life.
However, the law of biogenesis — only life begets life — is an absolute scientific truth and evidence that evolution is a false god. Scientists, even with all their modern knowledge and equipment, cannot change non-living matter into living organisms.
DANIEL P. MCKIM
Springfield, Virginia
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