Editor:

Re: Creative Solution, June 19.

I read with some amusement the letter to the editor by Laury Lange.

A simple Google search would have answered the letter writer’s odd reasoning for why there must be a god. Has Laury no understanding of gravity? It seems the Dark Ages are alive and well in 21st-century Canada. 

For your clarification, Laury, gravity can be thought of as a force that points inward toward the centre of the planet, so that every part of the surface is pulled evenly, resulting in a spherical shape.

However, when viewed closely, planets are not perfect spheres. The Earth, for example, has mountains, valleys, and – due to its rotation – bulges at the equator. So, in actual fact, the planets and stars are not “so round”; they are roundish when viewed from afar. 

Your devotion of today is echoing religious repetition of yesterday. Religion, Laury, has spoken its last noble or inspiring words a long time ago and should not hold back humanity’s growth any further.

At any point in history, we have had someone’s explanation of how we have come into existence.

Perhaps, if I had lived next to a volcano a thousand years ago and was told, “unless I throw my virgin daughter into its cone, the volcano would explode,” in my naivety I would. Thanks to science, we now know this would make no difference. To argue this point at the time would have been to no avail. Thanks to an accumulation of knowledge, and many sacrifices, our views have changed.

Religious beliefs are changing and developing all the time; however, these beliefs have no basis in fact.

I firmly believe these ideas, and the want to be right, cause more problems than they solve. Sadly, this is not the case, and the likes of you, Laury, will refer back to the manual, quoting as you go.

However, you can find as much inspiration and morality in Shakespeare, and far more serious ethical dilemmas are better considered by George Elliot, or William Golding, without claiming they are the words of god.  

I am prepared to speculate it is possible that, once people accept the fact we have one life and no afterlife, we might behave better toward each other and not worse.

Are you?

Rod Fathers, White Rock