February 13, 2009

  • Annals of Religion:

    Childish Things
    (continued from Feb. 7)

    DENNIS OVERBYE

    in The New York Times of May 16, 2008
    (quoted here on that date):

    "From the grave, Albert Einstein poured gasoline on the culture wars between science and religion this week.

    A letter the physicist wrote in 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, in which he described the Bible as 'pretty childish'...."

    This morning's New York Times:

    Plane crash near Buffalo on Lincoln-Darwin bicentennial


    The plane crashed at about 10:20 PM.

    Meanwhile...

    Yesterday evening in Springfield (as scheduled):

    6:20 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in Springfield, IL
     
    7:00 PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks at the 102nd Abraham Lincoln Association Annual Banquet

    8:30 PM THE PRESIDENT departs from Springfield, IL

    Religious summary by
    Buffalo Springfield:

    "Stop, children,
    what's that sound?
    Everybody look
    what's going down."