People who espouse Intelligent Design believe nature is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-God. Similarly, liberals believe the economy is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-government.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.