I am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for adopting the agnostic moniker? If "atheist" means someone who does not believe in God, then an atheist is what I am. But I detest all such labels. Call me what you like - humanist, secular humanist, agnostic, nonbeliever, nontheist, freethinker, heretic, or even bright. I prefer skeptic.

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

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

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

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

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

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