Darwin, Linnaeus, and One Sleepy Guy

I’ve just spent the past 30 hours at the Chautauqua Institution, the lovely village of ideas out in western New York State. Each week they bring in people to talk about a theme, and this week is a celebration of Darwin and Linnaeus.

Many interesting things have transpired over the past 30 hours. I spent some time listening to one speaker, Ken Miller, talking about the amicable intersection of religion and science with a couple skeptical listeners. I had to get up to call my wife while Ken was talking about how God was an explanation for the intelligibility of the universe, and meeting fierce opposition. But when I got back the mysteries of the cosmos were apparently solved–Ken

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