The process of natural selection feeds on randomness, it feeds on accident and contingency, and it gradually improves the fit between whatever organisms there are and the environment in which they're being selected. But there's no predictability about what particular accidents are going to be exploited in this process.

One thing in particular struck me when I compared the medical world on which my life now depended with the religious institutions I have been studying so inten…

When we replace the traditional idea of God the creator with the idea of the process of natural selection doing the creating, the creation is as wonderful as i…

Do I worship modern medicine? Is science my religion? Not at all; there is no aspect of modern medicine or science that I would exempt from the most rigorous s…