Mr. Dharmapala Senaratne, (DS) in his letter appearing in the Island of 19th November, 2009 states inter alia that Sir Arthur was of the firm view that life ended with death leaving behind no soul. In another letter which appeared on 20th October, 2009, DS made some remarks about re-birth. This is a response to the aforesaid letters.

Sir Arthur, in his book titled "Deep Range' stated that by the year 2050, the only religion left will be Buddhism and will remain so, for generations to come even after 2050. He would, no doubt, have had strong reasons for this prediction. Of course, everybody is aware of the various predictions made by Sir Arthur, which became true, during his life time. Sir Arthur would have made the above prediction after making an in depth study of Buddhism, which, of course, includes the concept of re-birth. If rebirth is something unacceptable, then Sir Arthur would never have made his prediction about Buddhism.