Letters to the Editor

Try not to mistake adaptation for evolution

These are the facts:

1. Science is "truth ascertained by observation."

2. Christian Creationism teaches that every herb, fruit or living creature was "created" to "bring forth ... after their kind." (Genesis Chapter 1). Written thousands of years ago, this basic truth continues to unfold before our eyes, billions of times daily, just as the Bible teaches.

That's proof of creationism. No one should be so foolish as to ignore that proof and that truth.

3. Evolution theorizes that "higher forms of life have gradually developed from simple and rudimentary forms." No one has ever proven that. Fossils don't prove it. History disproves it. One professor emeritus mistakes adaptation for evolution saying that some bacteria have developed a resistance to penicillin or tetracycline. This is adaptation, it is not evolution.

Do you know the man that designed the computer you use? Have you ever seen him? It not, he must not exist. You have no proof. It is foolish to claim that there is any degree of "intelligent design" involved in making the computer if you haven't seen the very man that did it. This is so if you believe the evolutionists. It doesn't matter that others have seen God or His works. The evolutionists haven't seem him, so the others don't count. It doesn't matter is there are multiple witnesses over thousands of years that have seen Him or angelic messengers He has sent. No evolutionist has seen Him lately, or if he did, he must be a lunatic.

Any reasonable person knows that the computer evolved from a calculator of its own accord. It will next evolve into a walking and talking robot, and finally a human. No creator is needed. Just give it a few million years.

Colin D. White

Support council bill, ban restaurant smoking

I hope every resident of Hawai'i will call City Council members to support Councilman John Henry Felix in his attempt to ban smoking in restaurants where thousands of our friends are forced to work in unhealthy situations. Felix has all the right reasons for introducing the bill — the welfare of the employees who must now breathe secondhand smoke and the welfare of the public, especially the children who have no choice in where their uncaring parents take them to dine out.

But let's not forget that the council passed a similar measure in 1995 and it was vetoed by Mayor Jeremy Harris. So let's put some pressure on the mayor to put public health ahead of his personal goals. Tell him that our health is more important than his wealth, and that accepting money from the tobacco lobby or from Tony Rutledge, who went against his own union members — putting his and Jeremy's financial and political goals ahead of even the welfare of the voting union members — is wrong.

Is there any question why so many hotel workers are opposed to having Jeremy as governor or why they threw Tony out as head of their union?

Think of the thousands of waiters, waitresses, bartenders and bar porters, hosts and hostesses, buspersons, entertainers, room and bar managers, as well as the diners and children, and force Harris to put public health ahead of his personal wealth and ambitions.

And if Councilman Jon Yoshimura doesn't understand why elected officials should concern themselves with the health and welfare of their constituents, perhaps he is still in the wrong job.

Keith Haugen

Impose a $1,000 fine for abandoned vehicles

I find it ridiculous the way the problem of abandoned junk cars is handled here. There should be a $1,000 fine for abandoning a car and the last known owner should be responsible. Then people would think twice about just leaving their dead car by the road or selling or giving their old clunkers to some shady character "for parts."

The city could collect a disposal fee when a car is registered and use that money to finance a city sponsored recycler. That fee would remain with the car as it is resold or whatever. Prove that the car has been discarded legally or moved off the island and you get that fee back.

And then there is the problem of residential or agricultural zoned yards littered with old cars. The number of unregistered cars out in the open on any private lot should be limited to two at most, not only because they are an eyesore, but these wrecks rust, leak contaminants and harbor varmints. They will also end up as junk "somewhere" as someone else's problem.

Volker Hildebrandt
Kane'ohe