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.

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

If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence, then we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.