With due respect to our UK colleagues, appropriate for a day celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the author of the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson, wrote elsewhere: “I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe, in its parts general or particular, it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and feel a conviction of design, consummate skill, and indefinite power in every atom of its composition. and the words of the Declaration would probably cause Richard Dawkins to have a fit: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and Read More ›