Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal mechanism: differential reproductive success of individuals.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought.

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.