I do despair,I really do. After having read Alister McGrath's excellent response to The God Delusion, called appropriately enough The Dawkins Delusion, I was amazed at how supposedly intelligent people can still insist atheism can deny the existence of God.

David, Birmingham, UK

What a muddled letter from Reiss. Yes, science teachers are obviously in a "position" to point out that the evidence shows that the creation myths in Genesis (and the Koran, etc) are myths. But the (different) "position" that science teachers ought to do this is not, alas, yet UK government policy.

Nicholas Lawrence, Oxford,

Maybe atheism and evolution are just another religion, it certaintly feels like its belivers are just as fundalmentalist, as any of Islam or Christanity, if there is no God and we evolved from nothing and will return to the dust of the earth, why are these people so up in arms about creationisn

Hugh Scott, Comber, UK