David Tyler, writing on the website of the "Access Research Network," an intelligent design creationist advocacy group, takes The Accidental Mind to task. He writes: "This book tells us more about the ideology of its writer than it does about the human mind." Fair enough. Everyone should have their shot at critique after all. However, it's revealing that Tyler never makes any specific references to the content of my book. It's very likely that he never bothered to read it. Rather, I suspect that he simply read the review in Nature and went from there. Too bad. If he had actually read Chapter 8 on "The Religious Impulse," in which I argue that scientific and religious thought are two branches of the same cognitive stream derived from narrative-creation, then there might have been a basis for a useful discussion instead of the usual attack-by-rote.



