More Tosh

I see Mark Vernon has been cranking out tosh again. Not content with this, he’s now come out with another column that leaves me pounding my head on the table. He seems to be saying that awe arising from ignorance is better than awe arising from knowledge. Bizarre. And he quotes with approval Stephen Jay Gould’s hoary old NOMA – Non-Overlapping MAgisteria; a particularly pernicious way of allowing religion to erect "Keep Out" signs around questions of meaning and purpose. 

 

I see that Jean Kazez has also raised her eyebrows at his column, and Vernon replies in the comments with more waffle. Sometimes I wonder if Vernon secretly hankers for the days when he was a priest.