Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.

If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

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

I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.