A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.

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.

Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show

....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.

Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.