If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment, may we not all pledge to avoid the silly censoring that can lead to a codification of Orwell's Newspeak? Consider John Milton's reasons for why good arguments are often lost: 'For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!'

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

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

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

... a local, indigenous, American bizarre-ity.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

Is uniformitarianism necessary?