I recently had the great privilege to spend 9 days in London with my family on a sort of mini-sabbatical after 15 years of service at my day job. A subtle but recurring theme to the visit was how often religion and science came up together. For starters, we patronized several bookstores, and every time the science section and the religion section were in the same room. Now, in a suburban Barnes & Noble in the US, that would be unremarkable because the whole store is basically one room. But these were older buildings, more warren than warehouse, where those two sections might fill an entire room. Granted, I can’t be certain these were fully independent observations; all the stores may be operated by the same parent company behind the scenes and thus share organizational guidelines, just as so many of the seemingly bespoke pubs had been bought up and homogenized with a common menu. Still, the topic pairing stood out to me.
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