Sir – Mr Weavers’ metaphysical mayhem (Letters, August 8) starts with the word suppose, but at the end of his little dance of creators we are no further forward as to why we should have supposed something.
We may imagine things, but that does not bring them into being. No matter how many creators we suppose the lack of evidence is the same, mere quantity of creators gets us nowhere. A more common argument for the existence of a God is that the complexity of life suggests a creator, but as the estimable Richard Dawkins points out, that would mean that the creator would be of even greater complexity and require a further creator, leading us down Mr Weaver’s amusing but ultimately self-defeating labyrinth of makers. You could, of course, look to evolution to explain the existence of life, which it does, but that would entail coming to terms with all that tedious evidence. There is no closed mind from unbelievers, just a lack of evidence from Mr Weaver.
Paul Surman, Horspath
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