Thanks for this. Sounds like Watson was his usual charming self! Still, best that you judged on the basis of observation rather than assumption, right?
On the religious point above, the idea that religious people must perforce tend towards creationism or rejecting science is just bizarre and, if anything, perfectly expresses your point that giving attention to creationism is a waste of time as it serves only to skew the debate further and to perpetuate the idea that the beliefs of a very small religious minority are the beliefs of all religious people everywhere.
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2008-06-01 11:41 am (UTC)On the religious point above, the idea that religious people must perforce tend towards creationism or rejecting science is just bizarre and, if anything, perfectly expresses your point that giving attention to creationism is a waste of time as it serves only to skew the debate further and to perpetuate the idea that the beliefs of a very small religious minority are the beliefs of all religious people everywhere.