Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

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

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

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.

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)