Being brought up as a Christian, I was taught that 'god is, was and always will be” and swearing on the Bible was to tell the truth and if atheists don't like that then I suggest that they swear on a small New Zealand flag, and either way tell a ‘lie' is perjury.

I was also taught that you could not make something out of nothing. I also have been told that the earth, universe, animals, people and all knowledge and history and evolution came from the ‘big bang' and started it all. I can believe this, because I have to reason that either ‘Go' or some ‘ethereal' being made that atom and in it, the future of the universe. Backing this up is that I was taught that ‘God' made heaven and earth (ie the Universe) and then man.

Being a Christian does not make me disbelieve the theory of evolution, as in my mind this is only Genetic Engineering using natural selection. Also the Bible says ‘God put Moses and two of all animals in the ark and drowned the rest.' Right now the best thing the ‘big bang' did was to enable me to write this and hopefully you to read it.

Rex O'Connor, Tauranga.