Yawn

As predicted, the editors of the Oklahoman have run what is almost certainly the final salvo in this month's theocratic battle. Unfortunately, Douglas Thompson of Oklahoma City has no idea how evolution works and has to resort to tired questions that he likely got out of a Jack Chick tract:

I don't know whether the earth/universe is 6,000 years old or 26 billion years old. I wasn't there when the universe began. Neither was Grow or anyone presently on the earth. I do know that one of the most complicated pieces of equipment ever flown (the space shuttle) was designed by men. Evolutionists say that the most complicated of all organs — the brain — contains 86 billion neurons and had no one to design it; essentially, it happened by chance. Does this make sense?

The classic argument from personal incredulity. Unfortunately, science doesn't work because some ignorant auto mechanic has trouble imagining that it's possible.

Worse, though, is that a state's major newspaper thinks that it's a good idea to publish letters written by ordinary people who question accepted mainstream scientific theory with old, discredited arguments. Unfortunately, the Oklahoman has to appeal to its mindless theocratic base, and so we get embarrassments like this.