I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

There is so much in this world to be skeptical about if you want to be a skeptical a**hole. I'm kind of a skeptical a**hole. But not about vaccines, that's just not one of them.

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.

Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.