‘Darwinian evolution theory is flawed’
Natural ethics is inborn in all life, intrinsic and inherited? Where is the evidence for that? The materialistic worldview implicit in Mr Hicks’ letter requires no designer, no mind, no intelligence. Everything came from nothing. And we get ethics from that? Patently absurd.
Worship freely indeed, allow others to believe as they will, yes. However, if your worldview is tenuous, based on frail evidence, fails the test of its logical conclusion — can you live with it?
To quote Professor Worzel (Mangawhai Focus) Darwinian evolution is believed by a majority of people, but any rational study shows it to be hopelessly flawed.
Karl van de Water Maungaturoto
There’s nothing smart about refusing to be tested for Covid-19. If you are one of those people who have refused to be tested and who have given wrong addresses and phone numbers and disappeared, you are not being smart.
Covid danger
There’s nothing smart about refusing to be tested for Covid-19. If you are one of those people who have refused to be tested and who have given wrong addresses and phone numbers and disappeared, you are not being smart.
You are not thinking of your country, your people — your families and communities.
Somebody could die because of your actions. Covid-19 is a dangerous disease. In addition your thoughtless actions are economic sabotage against NZ and put at risk all our efforts to eliminate Covid-19 and our economic recovery the growth of jobs and new industries and tourism. If you are not willing to be tested then you should be quarantined for 28 days or more to make sure that you are virus free. In Victoria where Melbourne has gone back into lockdown, anybody who leaves the state could be jailed for 6 months.
Alan Curry Onerahi
Climate crisis
Tony Climie’s criticism about your editorial “Hot topics put the heating planet in the shade” (June 26), downplay the impact of the recent record heatwave above the Arctic circle in Siberia, and attempts to mislead by shifting the focus as this being a natural event.
This event, like a multitude of others, highlights the impact of anthropogenic climate change is already having around our planet. The science relating to how our carbon emissions is primarily responsible is settled and irrefutable. We are now facing the danger of passing tipping points that will speed up the process of change.
While Covid-19 has had a major impact, the climate crisis remains the biggest existential threat, for humanity and all life on Earth.
Mr Climie is doing a disservice by questioning and promoting denial. Ray Paterson
Kaimaumau
Kudos for Gould
Thank you Bryan Gould for your sensible, well-balanced article “Pandemic Point Scoring”. Let us hope that those who “hunt for negatives” read and think about it seriously. Janice Davison
Tikipunga
Tarseal failure
Why is there no accountability apparent when newly retarsealed roads are failing two to three days after being done? It seems to be a continuous cycle, ensuring endless inconvenience to the motoring public. Why is there not an insistence on a better standard of work?
G. Thompson
Hikurangi