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

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

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause complex systems to arise from simple systems without a top-down designer.

Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.