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

Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die - and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

I hardly recognize what I do well. I just do it.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

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