Some time ago I briefly skimmed an essay in the New York Times by psychologist and evolutionary biologist David Barash entitled ' God, Darwin and My College Biology Class '. What struck me about this essay at the time was the brazen way in which Barash admits to proselytizing for atheism in his biology classes. In the very first paragraph of the essay, Barash bluntly states: "Every year around this time, with the college year starting, I give my students The Talk. It isn’t, as you might expect, about sex, but about evolution and religion, and how they get along. More to the point, how they don’t." How would an atheist like Barash react if a theist physics professor were to write something like: "Every year around this time, I give my students The Talk - about the laws of nature and atheism, how they get along. More to the point, how they don't." If the theist physicist were then to go on the note that he spent the entirety of The Talk insisting that ...