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Letter: Disappearing deity

Published 8 December 2004

From Tracey Hemingway-Wright

It was wonderful to read Keith Ward’s comment just to laugh at how far his God of the gaps has been shoved from the adore-me-or-be-damned genocidal megalomaniac to become the ever-so-cryptic “cosmic conscience” (27 November, p 19).

His article has shown me that even if there is a limit to what science can explain, there is no scientific bandwagon too high for these lunatics to jump onto to justify their lame-brained notions of sky fairies.

Leeds, UK

Issue no. 2477 published 11 December 2004

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