Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.