The Scene and Herd

I’m kind of jealous of Richard Dawkins. He was born at the right time, just as the atheists were getting all antsy and vocal. You know, the harvest is ripe kind of thing. He’s kind of like their messiah. 

I was referred to a recent article of his from Arts & Letters Daily. It was a (favourable) review of the book Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne found in The Times Literary Supplement. 

Now, I couldn’t be happier about this article. I’m relieved to finally see some sense knocked into the fanatic-creationist-whack jobs that frequent Arts & Letters Daily and The Times Literary Supplement. 

But then I read this:

Theories about the moon god devouring the sun god may be poetic, and they may cohere with other aspects of a tribe’s world view, but they won’t predict the date, time and place of an eclipse. 

I don’t know anyone who believes in sun and/or moon god involvement in eclipses. So I can’t be sure that those people frequent the same website that I do. Tell me where they are so I can enlighten them in person. You know, “to the ends of the earth” kind of thing, evangelism styles.