Sir – Those who believe in God believe that God is infinite.

To suggest that God would not be interested in this planet on the grounds of how small it is in comparison with the rest of the universe, as Dane Clouston does (Letters, March 27), misses this point and seems to put God at the level of the manager of a big firm who cannot possibly know what is going on in every department.

In mathematics, infinity is a common and useful concept. One can take a huge number like the ‘googolplex’, which is one with literally millions of zeroes after it, a number far more than the number of particles in the observable universe, but if we divide it by zero, the result is exactly the same as one divided by zero. Compared to infinity, all the vastness of space is thus reduced to insignificance.

So, in his infinitude, God would easily cope with simultaneously looking after every single individual on this planet, as well as the many more who may live on distant planets.

The world of infinities is a strange one, hard to conceive and differentiate, for all of us (including mathematicians) but one thing is sure: you cannot expect it to behave like the finite world. However, Mr Clouston is right that love and consideration are important in our troubled world. Why not love your enemies? — what a difference that would make to the world! The Bible also says: ‘God is love’, so perhaps Mr Clouston and I are not so far apart after all.

Ken Weavers, Headington