Letter: We 'grow out' of religion only to become moral pygmies
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Your support makes all the difference.WHEN T H HUXLEY heard of natural selection, he reportedly said: 'How very stupid not to have thought of that]' How much more stupid of Patrick Golding to describe evolution as 'incomprehensible' (Letters, 9 January) more than 100 years after its explanation was published]
Golding states that belief in Darwin's idea 'demands more faith than religion ever asks'. He is wrong: it demands only the faith that reason is more reliable than ignorance and prejudice.
Jeremy C Henty
Cambridge
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