Believers Can Have Both Religion And Science

Humans Evolved Brains That Are Pattern-recognition Machines, Adept At Detecting Signals That Enhance Or Threaten Survival Amid A Very Noisy World. ... But There Is Only One Surefire Method Of Proper Pattern Recognition, And That Is Science.

It Is Sad That While Science Moves Ahead In Exciting New Areas Of Research, Fine-tuning Our Knowledge Of How Life Originated And Evolved, Creationists Remain Mired In Medieval Debates About Angels On The Head Of A Pin And Animals In The Belly Of An Ark.

To Be A Fully Functioning Moral Agent, One Cannot Passively Accept Moral Principles Handed Down By Fiat. Moral Principles Require Moral Reasoning.

Darwin Matters Because Evolution Matters. Evolution Matters Because Science Matters. Science Matters Because It Is The Preeminent Story Of Our Age, An Epic Saga About Who We Are, Where We Came From And Where We Are Going.

I Am An Atheist. There, I Said It. Are You Happy, All You Atheists Out There Who Have Remonstrated With Me For Adopting The Agnostic Moniker? If "atheist" Means Someone Who Does Not Believe In God, Then An Atheist Is What I Am. But I Detest All Such Labels. Call Me What You Like - Humanist, Secular Humanist, Agnostic, Nonbeliever, Nontheist, Freethinker, Heretic, Or Even Bright. I Prefer Skeptic.