These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.

Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we should be proud that we are the only species that has figured how we came to be.

We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.