Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to have found it. But it is also a moment where I at least feel closeness to the creator in the sense of having now perceived something that no human knew before but God knew all along.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.