I have only one disagreement with Ismail Lagardien’s excellent article on old myths (Old myths no longer serve new realities, December 5). The last sentence reads: "Mythologising and philosophising about the world is not enough to change it for the better." Modern man is so wrapped up in the material world and claiming as much as possible for himself at the expense of others that he does not pause to consider the ultimate realities of life. I suggest that philosophy seeks to answer three questions: where do we (and so life) come from? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? All religions acknowledge that ultimately the spark of life is incomprehensible in normal terms and so is ascribed to God/the Creator/Whatever. Science, for all its vaulting claims based on tortuous logic, does no better. The easy scientific answer to the first and last questions is that religious views are neither proved nor disproved. Why are we here? Do we have any obligations to our fellow travellers, re...
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