From a reader:

Jonah,

I’m married to science teacher (and she is neither a hippie nor a first year) who teaches a unit on evolution in an all-girls Catholic middle school with support of both the parents and the administration. Step outside your echo chamber and see that evolution and the scientific method are main-stream, among both the faithful and otherwise, and I thank God for it.

Nobody ever made a semi-conductor by praying over sand.

Me: I think the echo chamber comment is a cheap shot given that I never said the scientific method wasn’t mainstream among the faithful. Indeed, the gist of my post was that I don’t like the anti-evolution stuff because it gives the opposite impression.