Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.

...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.