From ANDREW MORTON
I found Ridley’s article particularwly offensive in its assumption that
religion is perforce ‘irrational’. I regard my beliefs as highly rational;
they are just not scientific, any more than my rationally defensible view
that Dickens was a great author is scientific.
There is a conceit in the view that scientific methods and principles
can be applied willy-nilly to all human experience, from economy to music.
The idea that scientific theories can be imported – even metaphorically
– into the world of culture is simply and self-evidently fallacious.
Andrew Morton Lockerbie, Scotland
