To my horror, I found I hadn't blogged for almost a whole month. That means I may well have lost the one person reading this blog were it not my father...
Anyway, I am inspired to write following Cardinal Keith's latest bid for the limelight. Not that I can particularly bring myself to address them directly - commenting on the views of a priest with regards to biological sciences being akin methinks to asking Chick Young what he thinks about Siegfried and Brünnhilde's duet from the prologue of Wagner's Götterdämmerung.
No, what vexes me most is the fact that people are somehow surprised that he might hold beliefs that most of us left behind after learning to read. It's like the Joe Devine incident. I, and most other people with a passable knowledge of the blatantly obvious could have told anyone who wanted to listen that that's what he thought about such things. Why it got to be towards the top of the news agenda, both yesterday and today is indeed beyond me.
I can't wait to hear how this gets turned into 'SNP are anti-science' right enough...
