I DID enjoy Andrew Beesley's little homily on pharisees, the dictionary definition of whom is 'a show of religion with absence of sincerity, a sanctimonious person, a hypocrite'. The only fact in his attempt to make it sound like a scientific subject was the one about DNA proving our common ancestry and were this the only one in favour of evolution, it would still be 100% more than any fact to prove the existence of any deity.

Then after claiming that he didn't say evolution needed a God he finishes his letter by saying that my inference that he is backing two horses, i.e. evolution and creation both being God's work, is not valid because they are one and the same horse. Strange reasoning Mr Beesley, obviously as my previous letter said you are still trying to bring in the Trojan horse of evolution with the mythical God neatly tucked away inside. Creationism has always embraced a God, evolution has always eschewed all deities. You are indeed a pharisee Mr Beesley, dictionary definition of course!

D SMITH, Southampton.