When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.

[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life.

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the "millionaire Conservative party donors". I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago in what was then fresh volcanic ash. Who does not wonder what these individuals were to each other, whether they held hands or even talked, and what forgotten errand they shared in a Pliocene dawn?

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.