To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.