Religion & Law

Turtles All the Way

By John Pieret

The Billings, Montana Gazette has a write-up of David Quammen and, given this "Year of Darwin" and his self-described stint as "a tinpot Darwin expert," a nice thumbnail sketch of Darwin and his work.

I particularly liked Quammen's take on Intelligent Design Creationism:

We should teach it where it belongs ... in comparative religion, alongside Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, and the old Hindu belief that earth rests in space supported on four really big elephants that stand on the back of Chukwa the giant turtle.

Full post as published by Thoughts in a Haystack on May 17, 2009 (boomark / email).