To the editor:

This is, in part, a response to a recent letter to the editor written by Tim Morgan. In Tim’s closing sentence, he said he was sick and tired of the ongoing theological debate.

Some may get sick and tired of hearing differing points of view, but I find them thoroughly entertaining. In fact, the editorial page is the first page I turn to when I get my hands on the Daily to search for some new perspective in this lively debate.

Why do some of you get so bent out of shape over something so silly? I have come across some editorials where there is an apparent disgust for the opposing opinion. What is so hard to swallow?

Is it that some one does not maintain the same standpoint as you on this issue? That is the way it is, and that is why the editorial page is there — so you can inquire into other points of view.

If the differing opinions make you huffy, that is your problem. But why give yourself a heart attack?

Something that all of you should have learned by now here at our fine institution of higher education is tolerance.

You don’t necessarily have to adopt the various points of view offered, but you should at least see where others are coming from and be able to respect those points of view.

I don’t agree in the least with most of the discourse on this matter so far, but I am not going to make it my personal mission to try to set others straight and make them see things my way.

If everyone saw things the same way I do, or that you do, then there would not be as much diversity.

And less diversity makes for boredom, in my opinion.

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Martin Sanford

Senior

Zoology