For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens - our species - that we're just animals, too, we're just mammals, that there is nothing morally special about us. I, in myself, don't think this follows at all from Darwin's vision, but it is certainly the received view in many quarters.

Whereas people used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down, now we have Darwin saying, No, all of this design can happen,…

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…

The process of natural selection feeds on randomness, it feeds on accident and contingency, and it gradually improves the fit between whatever organisms there …