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

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

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.

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

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.