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)

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.

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.

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

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

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.