This letter is in response to the letter, "Everyone must decide for themselves between creation and evolution" in the Wednesday issue of The Exponent. The author states, "The theory of evolution suggests that some groups of people are not as far removed from the evolutionary ancestors that we theoretically share with the orangutans. This promotes racism … the theory of creation suggests that we are all equal and no one is less evolved than someone else." Besides using a pro-free society, anti-hatred of other cultures platform to throw creation in our faces, the author of this letter has things confused. Evolution says that, among other things, "All life on Earth has a common origin. In other words, in the distant past there once existed an original life form and that this life form gave rise to all subsequent life forms (www.evolutionhappens.net)." Many of the founding principals of evolution promote to the contrary of racism. Further, all humans are members of the same species; hence no one of us is more evolved than the next. Unless of course there is a race of super-evolved, six-fingered humans living underground. In which case I fear my life at the mercy of their vice-like grip. If a distinct evolutionary jump separated one person from another, making one of those people a different species, those two would not be able to procreate to achieve a fertile offspring. Much like a dog and cat can’t make sweet love and make the world’s first "cog" or "dat." I think the author’s right-winged, anti-orangutan views are unfounded. The author’s letter didn’t successfully differentiate evolution and creation; it simply shed light on her apparent hatred of our friend the orangutan. Check out www.evolutionhappens.net for a great argument, check out www.answersingenesis.org for heaps of dung.