Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

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.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

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

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!

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.