Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.

The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.