Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too.

Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?

When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating evolution. In other words, less creed, more roll with changing ways of seeing. Maybe adapting is a better way to see this.

We are not evolved but evolving.