Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

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

Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.

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

... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

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