No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another — that, in fact, has never been observed.

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?