So what exactly are people thinking when they stick these things on their cars? Dr. Tom Lessl may be the only one who knows. Dr. Lessl, who studies the use of symbols, is a professor in the speech communication department at the University of Georgia. He has undertaken a study of car fish, and wore out two pairs of shoes walking the nation's parking lots in search of them. Every time he found a Darwin fish, he left a survey form on the car. . . . Dr. Lessl says such marriages of science and religion have been a familiar refrain since the days of the Enlightenment, one continuous intellectual movement that has led through the writings of Francis Bacon in the 17th century on up to plastic fish.And of course, it's in the Science section. Read the whole thing.
(via Holy Weblog)
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