It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them.

We pass through this world but once.

God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word.

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.