What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Where d'you get those peepers?
Richard Dawkins, Oxford professor and scientist, outspoken Darwin apologist, takes on several pernicious creationist claims. My favorite part: "It now appears that the shattering enormity of geological time is a steam hammer to crack a peanut. "