20 APRIL 1996, Page 27

God be praised

Sir: I have seldom read such a biased book review as Rosalind Miles's spiteful splutter at Paul Johnson's The Quest for God (30 March). The probable opinion of Richard Dawkins, the atheist, is of little account. It is he who reduces the universe to absurdity in his entire dismissal of a Creator!

Iris Roper

Burgess Hill,

Hilgay, West Sussex