Sir, – Olan McGowan (May 7th) writes: "Theological debates can get so absurdly complicated that people can't accept that there is this beautiful, fabulously simple approach to accepting what we know and don't know. It's called atheism."
Imagine if someone had instead written: “Scientific debates can get so absurdly complicated that people can’t accept that there is this beautiful, fabulously simple approach to accepting how things happened. It’s called religion.”
Perhaps atheism is to metaphysics what creationism is to science? – Yours, etc,
MAOLSHEACHLANN
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