The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

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

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.