I've read a little bit more about that "how many people believe in evolution" poll.

A key sentence from the Telegraph article:

"The findings - to be published tomorrow in a report by Theos, a theology think-tank - follow a row over the place of creationism in education. "

The fact that these results are published by a theology think tank made me ( Read more... )

I wonder if this is how it felt when Roman civilisation gradually sank into decadence:

Half of Britons do not believe in evolution.

I would be interested to know what the 30% who believe in neither evolution, creationism nor intelligent design said. Probably "don't know". Whilst this level of confusion over something as fundamental to science as ( Read more... )

I've been watching more Little Dorrit.

( In which I discuss a television adaptation of a Dickens novel )

You know when, in the course of a day or two, you see several unrelated things that all put the same thought in your head?

That's happened to me, and the thought is "advertising and its unintentional contributions to culture".

Exhibit A is this xkcd cartoon. It's one of those cartoons that is not just only funny if you get the reference, but where ( Read more... )