No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.