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