Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.