This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

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.

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.

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.

Social media... it's the future for the new generation.

Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.

How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.