AS an atheist, I agree with L Lawes' attack (Letters, May 13) on the assumptions of religious believers, but, unfortunately, he goes badly astray in his similar attack on what he claims are the assumptions of the evolutionists.
It is not true that evolutionists claim that man is descended from apes, as he writes. This was the common misconception in the 19th Century when Benjamin Disraeli gave a speech in Parliament saying, "My Lords, the question is whether Man is descended from apes or angels. I am on the side of the angels."
What Darwin actually said was that both apes and Man are descended from a common, distant ancestor.
NEIL FOSTER, Bird Street, Brierfield, Nelson.
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