I use "chance" intentionally. A lot of evolution is simple chance accumulation of random scraps of garbage and errors! We shouldn't run away from the word, but should embrace it.

Of course, adaptive evolution is not chance, but random variety constrained by functional necessity.

Unfortunately, it's not a 'perfectly good copy' of the Origin -- it's abridged. Would you trust Ray Comfort to do a competent job of editing Charles Darwin?

Hey, if you are tired of the "Expelled from Expelled" stuff, think how I feel!

It's become a kind of obligatory question in just about every interview I do now, but really, it's only a small part of this podcast.

Hey, now. Tom Paulson is actually on our side -- I talked to him for some time. This article is written as it is because American newspapers can't possibly publish anything written for anyone older than about 12 years.

As for Kent...it's a nondescript suburb of Seattle. It used to be a small farming community called Titusville, but around the turn of the last century it was renamed in a PR move -- it was a major hop growing region, so they named it after that other source of hops, the Kent district of England. So don't blame them too much...come on, "Titusville"? You can't get a name that sounds much more like a hick town than that.

It doesn't matter if some of us don't find it funny (although, actually, I do --but then, I'm immersed in a small mob of younger people who listen to this genre all the time, and it's had a few years to grow on me). What matters is that the next generation does, and that they get the message right away. Evolution and atheism are cool, their proponents are loud and proud and a bit pushy...and that's a plus. This is the side we fuddy-duddies want to be on, because it's the side people under 30 want to be on.