Letters: Praise for environmental columnist

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I would just like to say how very much I enjoy reading Rachel Stewart's columns on environmental issues in our Rotorua Daily Post and fully agree that our politicians care more for the economy than the environment.

We are living on this planet as if we have another to go to.

YVONNE KILMORE
Rotorua

Three of the world's top geneticists have published opinions that we are doomed to impending extinction, due to compounding genetic mutations.

Doctors Crow, Kondrashov and Lynch have independently recorded the same depressing view of our race, as a result of their studies into genetic degeneration (they cite various rapidly increasing phenomena like Alzheimer's, auto-immune deficiency, depression, low male fertility and Mendelian diseases).

So what? Our recent creation myth, evolution, begins with the notion that our genes are constantly improving through mutations and natural selection.

The three good doctors (along with every other qualified geneticist) find that this just isn't so, quite the reverse in fact. Interestingly, the Christian holy book agrees with these three hardened evolutionary atheists, in declaring that creation groans in suffering, that everything is dying and wearing out.

Whereas the atheist has no hope, the Christian can read the bible which tells us that although all shall die, we can be made alive again in Jesus, who as God's Son, isn't condemned to perish through genetic entropy.

GJ PHILIP
Rotorua