Comments on: This Town Ain’t Big Enough

By: JK

JK — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:11:46 +0000

And where do you aim your arrow Dennis?

Middle America? The Southern US? The UK?

Do you simply aim your arrow skyward and (dare I say) “hope to hit your target?”

Science and Religion are incompatible.

I do not capitalize “incompatible.”

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:11:07 +0000

It’s a surprisingly prevalent view, though, Dennis. It’s a sop to the perceived importance — some would say necessity — of religion in human affairs, from those who would shield it from critical inquiry into its many preposterous assertions.

So what did you throw?

By: Dennis Mangan

Dennis Mangan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:05:12 +0000

“non-overlapping magisteria”

I think that if I read that expression I’d be like Kinglsey Amis when he first read one of his son Martin’s books: he threw it across the room.