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Letter: Letter

Published 6 June 1998

From Ron Holley

It would be clutching at straws to give any weight to fixed tenets in
science. Scepticism is a founding principle. On the other hand, religion is a
totally “open quest” since nothing on which it is founded is verifiable.

Alverstoke, Hampshire

Issue no. 2137 published 6 June 1998

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