Dear Sir,
Further to the discussion about the theory of evolution: it is not just Christians who question the scientific and rational basis of the theory. Richard Milton, a professional science writer, wrote The Facts of Life: Shattering the myths of Darwinism back in 1993, questioning the validity of most aspects of the theory.
James Le Fanu, another science writer, authored Why Us? in 2009. Although he still writes as if evolution is the only game in town, he recognises that the previous two decades of brain research and the genome project have made the theory harder to sustain, not easier. And his chapter on the practical difficulty, and sheer unlikeliness, of an ape becoming a biped – which ought to be a slam dunk for the theory of evolution – is worth the price of the book alone. [See en review May 2010. Editor]
More recently there have been What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor (philosopher) and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (cognitive scientist) (2010), and Mind and Cosmos: Why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly wrong, by Thomas Nagel, now emeritus academic philosopher in New York (2012). All three authors are explicitly atheists, and they recognise the rational and scientific difficulties that beset neo-Darwinism such that they believe it to be discredited as an explanation of our origins.
Yours in the Lord,
