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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 28 September 1996

From Glyn Williams

Sinfin, Derby

Foster makes much of what he sees as back-pedalling on the part of the
proponents of religion. It seems to me that what he describes is the act of an
established discipline modifying its basic tenets in the light of new knowledge
and thought. Is this not what science does?

Issue no. 2049 published 28 September 1996

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