The long letter by Verlyn Wolf in Sunday's News purporting to demonstrate that the existence of DNA and the information content thereof refutes the principle of biological evolution is an excellent example of how a little bit of knowledge, especially when it consists of linking a little jargon with a few facts from some popularization of science, is intellectually more dangerous than simply pleading ignorance.

It has been said that every complex problem has a simple solution - but it's wrong. Science does not attempt to find simple ways of understanding a very complex world. That may be left to religion. Science does try to find the underlying principles of nature and how they are involved in the complex phenomena that we observe around us. The primary accomplishment of science since the 16th century has been to demonstrate that all phenomena in the universe follow rules and to elucidate some of those rules. I think, however, that we've only scratched the surface and that many more human generations of scientists will spend their lives trying to understand The Rules knowing well that ultimate understanding is probably an impossible task.

Chemical and biological evolution probably are not accidents but rather are driven by fundamental, but yet known, rules of nature (it's well known that order can arise out of chaos but the how is not fully understood). Whether or not some higher power is or was the author of those rules is a different issue that is not within the domain of science.

Lowell Morgan

Monument, CO