ON reading your report (LET, February 4) on the Rev Kevin Logan's book, 'Challenge of Evolution,' I see that he's got a bee in his bonnet regarding evolution. He says what he writes is to "give each side a fair hearing. I present the evidence for and against evolution..."

I find what he has written is about as fair as that small number of American states which have banned the teaching of evolution.

Mr Logan goes on to says that teaching pure evolution to schoolchildren and the belief of the survival of the fittest is partly responsible for anti-social behaviour and a 'crippled society.' Countless millions of species have had to adapt to their environment or perish. But there's more to evolution than the survival of the fittest.

However, Mr Logan seems to think TV game shows are a result of this. Perhaps he would like to stop Sunday School and Mothers' Union egg-and-spoon races.

He says the way evolution is taught... "is totally inadequate to explain where we have come from and how we got here." Not to anyone with an open mind, not clogged with religious mumbo-jumbo, it isn't.

As to his suggestion that to an increasing number of scientists, evolution is a 'theory in crisis,' this, on his part, is clutching at the straws of self-comfort. It's the other way round and through better education, more scientists and more people are embracing this theory.

ALBERT MORRIS, Clement View, Nelson.