England has always reveled in its drawing-room dramas, from Jane Austen’s social minefields to E.M. Forster’s Howards End to Upstairs, Downstairs — and yes, the blockbuster Downton Abbey. John Lanchester’s brilliant Capital, set on a once-ordinary London block whose housing prices have skyrocketed, has the distinction of being the first brick-and-mortar novel set squarely in our current times.
For our part, if we have to hear another caller say, “But God is just a theory, and evolution is a theory too,” and a scientist explain how you move from hypothesis to theory to FACT, we will die
Posted by Lizzie on 11/18/04
We don’t have space to sum up the whole thing, but suffice it to say that science textbooks are getting stickerfied religion, and Maud — trial-laywer hat firmly on — is pissed.*
* Also, who’s up for this bumper sticker? YOU CAN TEACH CREATION IN THE CLASSROOM WHEN WE CAN TEACH SCIENCE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL.
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If I owned a car, I would have that sticker right next to a Darwin Fish.
Comment by alizinha — 11/18/2004 @ 2:50 pm