A crush is just as simple as admiration. You get attracted to another person and time can allow feelings to grow more into something more than that.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.