William Blake was born on November 28, 1757 in London, where his father was a hosier. He was a poet, painter, visionary mystic, and an engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. He managed to remain extremely poor all his life. He died on August 12, 1827, and was buried in an unmarked grave at the public cemetery of Bunhill Fields

In Petersburg, Kentucky, USA, just 4 miles west of the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati International Airport, a Creation Museum is being built. This walk through history museum will, it says, “be a wonderful alternative to the evolutionary natural history museums that are turning countless minds against the gospel of Christ and the authority of the scripture”.

There are now two interesting videos available via either YouTube or Richard Dawkins’ own web site.

In the kind of ideal world where you could do everything that you wanted, even if they were apparently contradictory, one of the things I would have been doing over the weekend is attending the State of Play conference in New York.