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Published: 30 October 2009

Apes, art and religion

• IT is not true that, as suggested by a visitor to the Marylebone exhibition, the Catholic Church refuses to believe that we stem from the ape (Fryer panned? Shock art wins blessings, October 23).
Evolution is a scientific hypothesis, and its validity is a question of evidence, not belief.
Catholics believe that the spiritual part of each person is directly infused by God. Personally I feel that if humans really are evolved from apes, why is it that animals don’t make war?
Stephen de la Bedoyere
Du Cane Court, SW17

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