This is in response to Elliott Epstein’s column, “True believers have a history of perverting science” (Sept. 2).

Congressman Todd Akin made an insensitive and medically inaccurate statement. If Epstein said Akin was an idiot, I’d agreed with him. But he didn’t. He said, “Akin is merely the latest in a long line of ‘true believers’ who have tried to hijack, pervert or crush science in order to protect extreme ideological or religious agendas.”

Akin wasn’t representing pro-lifers.

On the other hand, pro-abortion folks make wildly inaccurate medical statements every day, such as, “It’s only a clump of cells,” or, “It’s a woman’s body and her decision.” Not just her body is involved; she’s carrying the life of another. Or “fetuses don’t feel pain.” Many doctors state that babies feel pain as early as eight weeks. No doubt being cut to pieces and torn from the womb is painful.

Unlike Akin, the left doesn’t apologize for their misstatements; they swear by them.

Epstein insinuates that Bible believers don’t have a need for science: “they don’t have much use for the human brain, an extraordinarily complex organ … “ I believe it’s so extraordinary that only an extraordinary God could have created it.

Man-made global warming — proponents of the theory have been caught several times falsifying evidence. Al Gore uses 20 times more electricity than average in his home and flies around the globe in a fossil-fuel-guzzling private jet telling the rest of us to shrink our carbon footprint.

Speaking of fossils, creationists have been winning the argument as of late. The theory of evolution requires millions of years of small changes. Darwin was convinced that if it were true, there would be enormous evidence in the fossil record. One-hundred-seventy years and millions of fossils later there is no mountain of evidence. In fact, there is no evidence of transition from one species to another. Nor can evolution account for how everything began. Science is, in fact, disproving the theory of evolution.

Epstein says denial of a gay gene is an example of religious fundamentalists’ rejection of scientific investigation. Dr. Hamer thought he found evidence of such in 1993. There has never been a duplication of any major study’s finding on this subject, including Dr. Hamer’s. If you can’t reproduce a result, it is not proven.

Galileo was right and the Catholic Church was wrong; so were 99 percent of all scientists at that time.

Lastly, how dare Epstein mention God-honoring, Bible-believing people in the same breath as Adolf Hitler? The Nazis rejected Jesus Christ, as did the communists. They both embraced godless Darwinism. Together they killed more than 100 million people. And the pro-abortionists, even more to date.

And Epstein calls us hostile.

Greg Poliquin, Auburn