We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

Are we using science in ways that it wasn't intended to, in which case we should be a little careful, or are we using faith in ways that faith wasn't really designed for? There are certain questions that are better answered by one approach than the other, and if you start mixing that up, then you end up in ... conflict.

The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.