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)

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

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.

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

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

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.

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