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.

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.

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

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.

We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.