Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.