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In response to this letter in the Financial Times, we've sent the following response:

FYI: the letter we're replying to is a response to a favourable review of Dawkins' latest. Obviously SJS takes no position on Dawkins' philosophical conclusions - we're responding purely to the inaccuracies in the writer's characterisation of evolutionary biology.

Interesting ... I never read his letter as favourable. Neutral perhaps but not favourable.

Your response is cool though.

Kyu

FYI: the letter we're replying to is a response to a favourable review of Dawkins' latest. Obviously SJS takes no position on Dawkins' philosophical conclusions - we're responding purely to the inaccuracies in the writer's characterisation of evolutionary biology.

Corkscrew

Looks good to me. I would suggest just a few adjustments if you don't mind:

Where you hae "so far so good". I would expand to someting along the lines of

"So far the the theory has stood up to this critical examination: no serious flaws have been found"

and
where you have "The scientific community contains many Christians, the majority of whom accept evolution for the accurate model that it is."

I woud have "The CoE,a the Catholic Church and all major denominations accept evolution, and the scientific community contains many Christians, the vast majority of whom are happy to accept evolution for the accurate model that it is."

I just got a letter asking that I give them my address "so that my letter may be considered for publication".

This seems promising to me - does anyone know what conclusions may be drawn from this response?

You have done well my young Padawan

Kyu

Master, I fear I am turning to the dark side...

... no wait, that spinning sensation is just the beer. My bad.

They want to confirm that you are genuine. They may ask for a phone number and call you back. That happened to me the first time I wrote a letter to the Glasgow Herald.

Nice letter. Newspapers always ask for addresses, and often daytime telephone numbers, to confirm you are reasonably genuine. I have been getting letters published in the papers for 6 years now, and always attach my name and address and telephone number.

SCORE!!!!

Well done mate!

Excellent!

Well done!

Think you may prompt a resposnse?

Could do. Although my bet is that any such response will merely be a list of icons-of-evolution style creationist talking points rather than actually addressing any of my letter.

Nice one. It'll be worth checking the FT's letters over the next seven days to see if there's any response from the C/ID crowd.

Jim.

Seriously well done mate

Kyu