The power of ideas

If you had recently finished reading Edward Feser's ringing defense of Aristotle and Aquinas, then you might also be inclined toward mashups like this one: A thoughtful look at Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s great dystopian science fiction novel ("sacred shopping list," anyone?) and a blurb on Vatican funding for adult stem cell research from the Anchoress.

Those people who continue to bray about conflict between science and religion or lean overmuch on Galileo as a poster boy for what allegedly happens when popes meddle with freedom of inquiry are what Bugs Bunny would have called "maroons." Such folk need to brush up on their history and probably also their philosophy.