Through the rise and fall of empires, many a thinking man has been browbeaten by a tyranny of the majority for adhering to ‘dangerous’ beliefs concerning Reason and Creation.

Two such early intellectuals sentenced to beatings (in the literal, painful sense of the word) for their ideas were rationalist philosophers al-Kindi (805-873CE) and al-Razi (865-925CE).

Reading Dr Syed Alwi Ahmad's No scientific proof for special creation and the responses to his view published so far, I certainly hope that our own physicist will not be beaten over the head (figuratively speaking) until he retracts his belief in evolution.