I HAVE read with much interest the numerous comments arising from the Rev Kevin Logan's new book about evolution. I also have difficulties accepting the theory of evolution.

Two reasons for this are:

Firstly, for a theory to be scientific, it must be able to explain all the facts. The theory of evolution fails to do this for it cannot answer the crucial questions of where did the cosmic egg come from and how can life come from dead, inert matter?

Secondly, the theory of evolution claims that a human being is a random, fortuitous concurrence of atoms in a causeless and impersonal universe. In other words, we are not the result of planned creation but of accident.

I find it hard to accept that we are 'accidents' when we have: 200billion brain cells with 200 pathways leading to every brain cell, 73million photoelectric elements in our right eye (compared with a mere 60,000 in a television set) and our heart pumps 40million times a year pumping 100,000 miles of blood cells through 146 capillaries once every 26 seconds of every day of our lives.

I would suggest that the reason we don't like to think of ourselves as being created by God is because if God created us, then he owns us.

And if he owns us, then we are not our own but we belong to him and if we belong to him then we will one day have to give an account to him of what we have done with our lives.

JOHN EDWARDS, Yates Fold, Blackburn.