WHEN Justin de Freitas points to the Evolution VS Creationism debate he is, in fact, highlighting the Good Science VS Bad Religion conflict (GC July 22nd).

Mr. de Freitas says that very often, some religious people exceed matters of the human spirit and instead try vainly to distort factual reality with non-testable ideas of supernaturalism. Such people delude themselves, he says, by thinking that they have found the truth to existence.

As a self-declared humanist, de Freitas would undoubtedly dismiss such fundamentalist religious claims as evidentially untrue. He would be right, but at the same time he should remember that for some folks anything can be true if someone says it to them often enough (so Daniel Singh will try to a write one letter every day). A fact for these people is anything that that enough people believe, and truth is determined by how fervently they believe it.
DAVID SEEGOBIN