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.

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

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.

God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do it? It was an incredibly elegant way to do it.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

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