Wasteful spending

This question is directed to the Montana Senate and its staff. Where is the justification in spending $12,500, or about $104 per square foot, to remodel an old mechanical area that was used to conceal piping to the roof and to an office below it at the state Capital? I'm referring to the article, "Capital 'mystery room' to open" in the March 3 IR.

The area in question measures 7.5 ft. by 16.5 ft. or about 120 square feet that has no historical importance. That's a lot of money to spend on a storage closet, with all the money problems we have with our state budget. I'm sure the Senate in all its wisdom could find a better use for our tax dollars.

I find that after speaking with other people around the Capital Complex that I'm not the only one that finds this a gross waste of money.

Thomas Kane

132 Fairway Dr.

Science questions

If evolution is such a certainty, then where did the matter for the singularity of the "Big Bang" come from? Why does our solar system defy the law of conservation of angular momentum? If all of our solar system's planets came from the same cloud of orbiting gas, why are they all so different?

Where did all the water on earth come from? How long does it have to rain on a rock before new life forms? Where did the vast amount of information in the nucleus of the first living cell come from? What led scientists to deceive us with the fraudulent "missing links" Java Man, Piltdown Man, and Nebraska Man?

Why do we find human artifacts in coal beds that are supposed to be millions of years old? Why do we find petrified trees spanning supposedly millions of years of sedimentary strata? How did the Mount St. Helens' eruptions create petrified wood in twenty years? Why are there ancient paintings depicting man with dinosaurs? Why have so many people reported seeing live dinosaurs?

Evolution has no answers for these questions, but the Book of Genesis does: "In the beginning, God created . . ."

Mike Carroll

P.O. Box 1314

East Helena, 59635