"But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice."
-- Charles Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Mein Kampf
Brother Greg Pabst sent me a link to a book review in which this sentence appeared:
The strain to affect some semblance of scholarly detachment seems to have cramped his gleefully polemical style.
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