Evolution depression
Normally I'm a very ‘up’ personality, as all who know me will testify. But the lack of response from newspapers to my letters is starting to get me down. I am now really only able to motivate myself to write one a day. Sometimes two.
Dear editor,
Perhaps your reporter (‘Bible belt puts squeeze on evolution’, see the report here, SMH Oct 28) should've asked respondents which version of evolution they didn't believe—Darwin's, Gould's, Dawkins', or some other variant. The schisms between evolutionary theorists make the current woes of Anglicanism look like a polite fracas among the corgis at a Royal Garden party.
Until the theorists sort themselves out it is little wonder that some sensible Australians will choose to remain agnostic and believe that the Bible will turn out to be consistent with whichever account the boffins eventually decide upon.
Yours sincerely (etc)