We read (“Voice from the underground”, 22 March) that Fr Tomás Halík “has debated internationally with scientists and atheists as well as with Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists”. Why would scientists be positioned as somehow obviously different from Christians, even placed alongside atheists? Are we being invited to presume scientists are not people of faith? Every other group mentioned is clearly, by definition, not Christian, but why scientists? What a triumph for Richard Dawkinism if we, by our language, accept that scientists and Christians are sets with no common members. I’m not sure what the author of another article in the same edition would think: Br Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican Observatory, Jesuit and meteorite expert. Or Gregor Me