Letters | 2 October 2010

Spectator readers respond to recent articles

Darwinian faith
Sir: I am always amazed at how little Darwin’s devotees seem to know about his theory of how evolution came about. In addressing the familiar riddle of why the fossil record does not show ‘intermediate forms’ between one species and another, Mr Lewin (Letters, 25 September) caustically claims that ‘intermediate is a mischief-word employed by creationists’.
Had he read my article more carefully (or, more to the point, had he ever read The Origin of Species), he would realise that it was Darwin himself who first queried the absence of those ‘intermediate forms’. Darwin’s answer to these and other fundamental objections to his theory was, as I said in my article, no more than a leap of faith that one day the evidence would be found to prove him right.
Since that evidence still hasn’t emerged, the Darwinians dismiss anyone who raises rational objections to the theory as a ‘creationist’.