To demonstrate my 'blatant falsehoods', Darren Galea wrote that "Dr Mizzi also quoted Steven M. Stanley as doubting evolution" (The Sunday Times, March 1).

Mr Galea has missed the point. Stanley and other eminent evolutionists do not doubt the concept of evolution, but they acknowledge the colossal problems in the fossil data for the Darwinian model of evolution.

The fossil record is characterised by the abrupt appearance of species and lack of substantial change throughout a species' range in the fossil record.

That is not what Darwinism predicts.

Despite evidence to the contrary, biologists continue to defend evolution. They cannot do otherwise as long as materialism (or naturalism) remains their basic presupposition.

Simply stated, materialism is the belief that everything that actually exists is material, or physical.

God is excluded a priori. The materialist believes that reality is confined to nature's box, and there is nothing outside. Some of us still remember Carl Sagan declaring: "The cosmos is all there is, or was, or ever will be."

Even if the evidence points towards intelligent design, the materialist cannot even consider the possibility of an intelligent Creator. He must explain away the complexity of life in terms of physical force. He has no alternative if the cosmos is all there is.

I choose not to be so narrow-minded. I believe in God. To me, the wonderful design of a microscopic cell and the vast information coded in DNA - more complex than any computer software - do not point to chance and random processes, but to an Intelligent Designer.