Ramon Casha (June 14) makes some interesting remarks, which I have no intention to question, because we read: “Where there’s no hearing, do not pour out words”. However, since in the column the following words were highlighted: “Science has been removing the need of a deity to explain natural phenomena for ages...” I would like to quote a scientist and a media person.

Enrico Medi, known as the father of the atom, was asked by a press representative when the first spaceship landed on the moon whether now that man had conquered space, arriving on planet moon, he still believed in God? His answer, short and sweet, was: Now I have one more reason to believe, because without God man could never do such a thing.

Fulton Sheen, the media bishop, as they called him in the US, one day, while on his way back from the TV studios, was passing by a pub. Two men were drinking beer in the pub and, on seeing him, one said to the other: “Here comes the man who always speaks about afterlife. What if when he dies he will find out there is no heaven and hell?” He overheard them, stopped and, standing on the doorstep of the bar, said to them: “Well I’ll be happy, because I’ll be in peace with myself. But may I ask you, what if on your death bed you will discover that there is hell and heaven?” And he walked on. But then, don’t we read: “Fools say in their hearts, ‘There is no God’?”

Narrow minded persons down the ages, from Greek philosophers to Christian thinkers, like John Henry Newman and G. K. Chesterton, to name just two, thought otherwise and lived accordingly.