I COULD'T help but laugh at Ian Woodland's indignant insistence that his children be taught "fact'' over "the fantasy world'' of religion (letters , August 2).

Is Mr Woodland aware that the science he is so keen on his children being taught includes evolution, which is and never has been a fact, but is merely an unproved theory?

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who has sold millions of books promoting evolution as a fact, has recently admitted that evolution is as much a matter of faith as belief in a creator, the same kind of faith without evidence that he, and Mr Woodland, mocks in religious believers.

However, Christians believe in Christ not just on the basis of faith but also because of their personal experience of God, logical argument, and evidence from the Bible, history, archaeology, cosmology and other sciences.

Perhaps Mr Woodland is better off investigating what he calls "fantasy'' and following the trail of evidence, like a true scientist, before he dismisses it so easily in favour of what boils down to a scientific delusion.

AMANDA SMITH, Hythe.