A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.

Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.

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

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