links for 2009-07-02

For many years there has been a divide between those who are not religious but think that promoting science should not exclude the religious, and those who are not religious and think that no defence of science should ever admit a religious believer at all. That is not quite the way they would put it of course, but the divide is between “accommodationists” and “exclusivists”.

Even in a somewhat scholarly effort to look at these issues, apparently Rosen can't even demonstrate his points with music, because copyright forbids it, and requires hefty licensing fees

The Branch Plant in Milledgeville is on the list.

The entire bizarre story of Palin's fifth pregnancy; the Dish's exhaustive one-post summary of all the facts compiled by the New York Times and the Anchorage Daily News. Try and make sense of it if you can.