10 SEPTEMBER 1994, Page 29

Sir: Poor old Paul Johnson seems to have been rather

rattled by Richard Dawkins. His column is only a slightly incoherent assertion of his beliefs, with a list of people to whom 'it had never occurred' to question theirs. It seems to have been written to quell his own anxieties rather than for us.

Let me reassure him: God does exist, as does science, Marxism, the Probability The- ory, Parkinson's Law, and all other cre- ations of Man.

Ian Hennessey

Hauteville, Lyme Road, Axminster, Devon