Sir, - Having read the evolution article by Dr Dominique Tassot (July 18th), I have the following comments:
1, There has only been observation of micro-evolution - The problem here is that you need a complete list of life forms, and then continually update it over a period of millions of years. As nobody had a list of life-forms except in the last 100 years (and which is still being added to), nobody before this time could tell whether a life form was new because it had evolved or simply because they had just found it for the first time. Most life forms are stable for millions of years;
2, No intermediate forms - I heard that four intermediate forms have been found. Anyway, this is related to point 4 below.
3, DNA is remarkably similar in all life forms, so they are related somehow, even if it is a complicated relation.
4, Some geological formations may have been laid down quickly, e.g. in local floods - so they would not produce a continual record of evolution (see point 2 above). But they are still millions of years old.
5, Evolution does not ignore laws of physics. If you shut someone in a closed box they decay on a timescale of weeks, agreeing perfectly with the law of entropy. Yours, etc.,
Dr Brendan Roycroft., Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.