10 SEPTEMBER 1994, page 29

Why Oh Why

Sir: Spanish is an example of a language which distinguishes between Why? (from LETTERS what cause?) and what F. Miles (Letters, 27 August) calls Quhy? (for what purpose?).......

Letters

Sir: Charles Moore goes further than the Catholic Church in the reservations he expresses about the Cairo Population and Development Conference. The Vatican is not responsible......

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......

Sir: Steve Jones Remarks That The 'wars Of Religion Were

sparked off in part by the vexed question as to whether Christ was entirely divine or partly human'; adding that the issue no longer bothers the Church of England (Diary, 27......

Waughs In Woad

Sir: I am sure it will come as an immense surprise to Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 23 July) to learn that many of the peoples of the Pacific rim had reached a high cultural......

God Slot

Sir: Richard Dawkins is prone to overstate- ment and excessive simplification in his arguments against religious belief, but his case is not disposed of quite as easily as Paul......

Sir: Charles Moore's Major Essay On Popu- Lation, With...

courtesy, omits one thing: that Sir Roy Caine has six chil- dren. This descredits Sir Roy's claim to concern about overpopulation. Sir Roy Caine appears to be preaching......

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