On Easter Sunday, April 15th, 1990, a lady asked her clergyman this question: ”How can I teach my teenage children about Adam & Eve, and the Garden of Eden, when they are being taught evolution in public school?”.  The clergyman would only reply, “Just believe the Bible!”. Was that of any help to the lady?  No, it wasn’t.  It was...

The cats and I generally get up for a while about three or three-thirty, an old habit that’s partly anatomical, partly defensive (checking the premises), partly accidental. a habit that means I watch the sun come up in midsummer but not in winter when I’m up, but not the sun. Last night I rose quietly, and Squibbie, who sleeps in the front room in my extra reading...

One hundred and fifty one years ago, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace knew that birds dropping from the skies, dead fish and crabs washing up from the sea, and cows flopping in the fields, are nature’s spectacular staging of what Darwin termed natural selection. Darwin wrote, “As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and...