What attack on Christianity?
Regarding Jaime Castaneda's June 19 letter, "The confines of Darwin's writing": I think Castaneda should read Rowan Hooper's article ("Of Darwin and Mishima," June 11) more carefully before attacking him for attacking Christianity. I read it carefully, and I've always thought of myself as a reasonably well-educated person, but couldn't at all see the source of the offense. Perhaps religious paranoia is a bit like religious belief: It requires a certain type of mind and a lack of concern for material evidence.
However, Hooper was guilty, ironically, of bad technical writing, though this was probably a typing error, when he writes: "a dark form of the usually white-speckled insect evolved during the Industrial Revolution so as (to) camouflage it against the polluted and blackened trees . . ." New forms don't evolve "so" that something is the case; rather, new forms persist "because" something is the case.
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