...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.

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

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

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.

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.