I APPRECIATE the points of Albert Morris and Dave Hollings (Letters, March 22). I make similar ones in my book, 'Responding to the Challenge of Evolution'.

Mr Morris says there are some links between kinds of animals in the fossil record, and invites me to see "the one non-controversial missing links that I call for" at the National History Museum.

My point was simply this: with millions of digs over 150 years and the whole of industry and commerce shifting swathes of Planet Earth, we should by now have millions of missing links, if evolution occurred.

Mr Morris says the eye developed gradually by chance, as with the rest of our incredibly complex world. I suggest it boils down to faith.

I don't have the faith to believe it all came about by blind, unintelligent, unguided chance. How can our intelligence come from non-intelligence? It seems so much simpler to accept that the God I know is the intelligent designer and creator of it all, whether in six short days, or over longer periods, as other Christians believe.

I did warm to Dave Hollings' intelligent letter. He told me off for using survival of the fittest in a moral way. I'd pointed out that if we taught our kids evolution without God we could hardly blame them for behaving like animals from the jungle.

Mr Hollings suggested that often the meek, like beetles and lilies, inherited the earth while the dinosaurs disappeared. And he's right.

However, he's wrong when writes, I'm reluctant to draw morals from evolution. The reality is that we humans are what we believe.

When the majority are taught evolution without God, I fear for our future. We will end up with much than mere anti-social behaviour.

THE REV KEVIN LOGAN, Christ Church Vicarage, Accrington.