This person should have been aborted years ago.

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly you find yourself losing all of your natural skepticism and your scientific - really scientific - credibility. I'm sorry to be so blunt.

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.