from the article in the guardian:

"....he has been speaking to George Smoot, the Nobel-winning astrophysicist who first identified the background radiation of the Big Bang and thereby invented cosmology..."

yes, the state of the public's science understanding is dire and education is needed, just not the kind of education that that writers for the guardian are capable of.

" 'I go through these science books for kids and they are so dull compared to the novels that children read... I think that you have to make it an epic journey, a narrative with heroes and villains, molecules engaging in this struggle for life.'"

please, just stop helping.

Remember when Pat Robertson said terrorist attacked us because of the gays (well, they were one of many people for whom we can blame, including abortionist). Well, I wonder what kind of messages God's sending after the foiled attack on London, a city that resides in a country with "civil partnerships. God, he's a tough cookie to figure out.

Hmm. We've been having a great summer here in Pittsburgh, so I guess we are a model of godly virtue. Meanwhile, God is using floods to castigate the evil anti-evolutionist throngs of Kansas.

And the bishop follows up his stellar logic with inspiring theology:

"He expressed his sympathy for those who have been hit by the weather, but said that the problem with "environmental judgment is that it is indiscriminate"."

Too bad God isn't capable of surgical weather strikes that separate the heathen from the virtuous. I guess lightning is just too hard for God Almighty to work with!

From the Guardian article:

"UK, a place, we might remember, where 20 per cent of people still believe that the Sun revolves around Earth."

Wow...