Some reflections from a brisk walk in an eastern wood.

That, after all, is the glory of science: looking to see what’s actually there…Any theory, theistic or atheistic, that attempts to assert a priori how nature must be, and which then purports to explain it or spin it out merely in accordance with the principles of a theory, and without actually looking — well, that’s an unscientific theory.

I had a child’s usual professional interest in trees as structures to be explored, and as droppers of branches from which swords, and bow-and-arrows, and forts could be made. Yet it never occurred to me in those far-gone days to learn to recognize a species at a glance.

The core of the two worlds is still the heroic struggles of the demigods (DC) and the human struggles of the heroes (Marvel). Neither ethos is absolutely uniform in-world, and there are many degrees of difference even within the different suburbs of each shared comic universe.