4 FEBRUARY 2006, Page 82

Faith

From John Bunting Sir: Dr Chris Scanlan’s letter (21 January) and Richard Dawkins’s effusions show the extent to which fundamentalism is now taken as representative of religion as a whole.

If a thing is demonstrably true, I don’t need to accept it by faith. Genesis is not concerned with the physics and biology of creation, but with its perceived meaning and worth. I therefore accept evolution, but believe that the matter which made it possible came into being by conscious creation, not by chance.

John Bunting Godalming, Surrey