Brian Boughton, of South Ford Road, Dartmouth, writes: Reading Brian Parker's newspaper letters is depressing, especially when they are about the Large Hadron Collider. He expresses no admiration for the 27km underground LHC at CERN, which creates proton collisions at absolute zero temperatures and near to the speed of light. It is the biggest machine ever built, employs 10,000 scientists from all around the world and is making fundamental discoveries, such as the Higgs boson. The universe is 1.7 billion years old, and we now have a good description of its evolution back to the first billionth of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. And as soon as ­carbon was formed in the ­centre of our star this made possible the formation of molecules from which all living things are made and that evolved into us. Most of us glory in such wonders, but it irks Mr Parker that, from the first billionths of the first second of time, there is no evidence of God the creator. God may exist in men's hearts and minds, but he did not ­create the universe or us. As for berating critics of the food bank, Mr Parker should accept that food bank Methodist clowns who dress up as ­pantomime turkeys and behave strangely will end up with ­custard pie on their faces. If he and they wish to ­practise their religious beliefs in private I will be the first to defend them. But if they foist their beliefs on others they had better watch out. On the 50th anniversary of Churchill's death, Mr Parker may recall that when Sir Wilfred Paling called Churchill a dirty dog, Churchill told him to remember what dirty dogs do to palings. Ninety three per cent of ­people no longer have religious beliefs or go to church, and the other seven per cent will respect this or suffer the consequences. By the way, has Mr Parker heard that there is a Spaniard called Ferdinand Magellan who says the world isn't flat? Whatever next? Tut tut.