An intriguing aspect of this study is that the mechanism for ensuring cross-fertilization is very old, often lost, and never regained. That it is still common despite frequent and irreversible loss implies that this trait...

Our own faculty has gotten sensitized to the issue that there’s a bunch of people that just don’t get it.

This is the strongest evidence yet to support irreversibility. If we had not used the genetic data coding for this reproductive mechanism and only inferred the pattern of evolution based on the traits of living...

The bigger issue here is what is and isn’t science. There’s no scientist who’s going to prove or disprove the existence of God. It’s just a different realm.

I think there is a deep-seated desire to believe that humans are special, and that the Earth is our dominion rather than we’re just another endpoint among all the other endpoints of evolution.