Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. The planet is running fine. What people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.

Life learned early on to recognize itself.