Jerry Bergman's Slaughter Of The Dissidents

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“Polite - or impolite - persecution, each form of discrimination bears its own dangers” (Editorial, The Catholic Times, 9th December). Even in science, education and a nativity scene spiritual warfare hides.

Ben Stein’s DVD, “Expelled No Intelligence allowed” documents the academic persecution of scientists and educators who believe nature has design. Darwin’s theory, a bedrock of atheism/Russia/China and an increasing secular Britain rejects design.

Sacked was a Christian when discovering blood cells in an alleged 60+ million-year-old dead dinosaur. His belief compromised evolutionary scientific belief!

Jerry Bergman’s book, Slaughter of the Dissidents “gives a detailed report on the educational establishment’s efforts to insulate evolutionary

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