Secular Intelligent Design

Some ideas arrive wearing uniforms. Secular Intelligent Design arrives in a kurta — plain, comfortable, and ready for work.

The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.

Watch a master carpenter teach an apprentice. He does not lecture; he lets the boy hold the wrong end of the saw until the wood itself becomes the teacher.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. One page cannot change a life. But one recognised pattern can change a Tuesday, and lives are made of Tuesdays.