I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.

God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions.

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.