22 APRIL 2006, Page 28

The Resurrection

From John Jolliffe

Sir: Richard Dawkins is quite wrong in saying that there is no good evidence for the resurrection of Jesus (‘Did Jesus really rise from the dead?’, 15 April). It is to be found, for example, in the eyewitness account in St John, chapter xx, of St Peter entering the tomb after Jesus had risen and finding the grave-clothes inside; and also, of course, in the later experience of St Thomas.

Dawkins adds that it is ‘up to us’ to make life meaningful, which is precisely what Christians do, through the concepts of love, charity, honour, duty and self-sacrifice. These are nowhere to be found in the subhuman framework with which Dawkins and his fellow rationalists are so dismally content.

John Jolliffe

Alnwick, Northumbria