I’VE enjoyed the recent creation versus evolution debate in our Telegraph letters’ page.

Throughout my education I accepted classroom norms, only daring to question once free of intimidating teachers and lecturers.

I found it increasingly hard to accept I was only an accident out of a big explosion.

Everything seemed so beautifully designed and even science admitted that ‘biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose’ (Richard Dawkins).

Mr D hastens to add his own faith that, despite this, there is no God or Designer.

His evolutionary science argues that just because things look like they’ve come from an intelligent source (i.e. God), this is not so.

Blind chance mothered them out of that big explosion I mentioned earlier.

Meanwhile, other scientists claim the exact opposite regarding design.

Should we ever, for example, pick up a message from outer space through SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) science believes that that would indicate an intelligent life source.

So, a simple message is created by intelligent design but the universe, infinitely more complex, comes about by haphazard chance. For some scientists it’s not merely confused thinking, but rather a clear-headed determination to barricade their work up an intellectual cul-de-sac.

These are the ones with a horror of the spiritual; those who’ll do anything to maintain the status quo of evolutionary materialism.

In a moment of intellectual honesty, Prof. Richard Lewontin wrote, “Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a divine foot in the door.”

Now that’s sad, especially when increasingly evolution is shown to be a theory in crisis and in need of emergency care.