Sir: If I may quote Sorbiere, writing in the seventeenth
century, 'There are three kinds of atheists; persons of subtle understandings, men of profligate principles and ignorant pre- tenders to thinking.' Which of these, if any, is Mr Allsop (21 June)? His belief that the ex- planation of life's origin, as offered by Oparin et alii, has finally removed any basis for a belief in God, is disturbing. But in this myopic attitude he is, unfortunately, not alone.
Man has always feared the unknown, the inexplicable, and explained them through a God, and though science has exploded many myths and caused much religious rethinking, the two great unanswerables remain—the origin of the universe, and whether there is life after death. On these, at least theism is still justified, and in all its represented forms, offers hope. What scientific thought, with its demand for proof and truth through facts, has done is to make the Christian story of resurrection and ascension less credible.
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