The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.

As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.

In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin.

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

The power to influence flows to the person with the most information.

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.

Whatever you do, do it well.

I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.

If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking as it should be.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you.

It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.