Thanks for all the compliments!

I congratulate you for the way you and your family celebrate Darwin Week. Your children will only benefit from being taught good science in a fun way.

Incidentally, my wife is a practicing Mormon but you’d never know it to just talk to her. She is so much more a humanist at heart and in deed. We’ve only been married for a little over two years, but we knew each other (and were in love with each other) over thirty years ago. Circumstances (her being widowed quite some time ago and never remarrying, and my divorce four years ago, among other things) finally allowed us to reunite. She doesn’t quite understand how I can have utterly abandoned religious belief, and I know she tires of my atheist talk, but since love is the most powerful force in the human experience we know there is no obstacle or disagreement between us that our love for each other cannot overcome.

Keep up the good work, Noell. You are doing a great service for humanity.

Of course now you will have to be aware of the paparazzi hounding your every step. I’d stay away from that Brad Pitt guy, if I were you.

Worms in dirt! Worthy of the best of “Fear Factor.”

TLS

I saw a recipe that I thought would play into your Dawkins Week. It was for a cake. The design was simple. A box chocolate cake with a thin frosting using whatever you like and then a layer of crushed Oreo wafers (without the filling) thick enough to cover the thin frosting and then gummy worms (or other critters) around on top of the layer of crushed Oreos. It looks like worms in/on dirt!!