Anthony Grayling, who does a really interesting review column in the Barnes and Noble Review, entitled "A Thinking Read", has a piece on Jerry Coyne's book Why Evolution is True. This saves me having to read it and review it for you myself.
The column title is a pun on Blaise Pascal's statement that "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed". A pun which I wish I had come up with.
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