Peter A. Levine Ph.D.

Let’s face it: the fight against evolution by the proponents of “creationism” and “intelligent design” is not really about the professed gaps in the fossil records; rather, it’s about whether or not we are basically animals.

Science is our new religion and its holy water is disinfectant.

—George Bernard Shaw

In The Descent of Man Darwin writes,

Man and the higher animals … have … instincts in common. All have the same senses, intuition, sensation, passions, affections and emotions, even the more complex ones such as jealously, suspicion, emulation, gratitude and magnanimity; they practice deceit and are revengeful; they are sometimes susceptible to ridicule, and even have a sense of humor; they feel wonder and curiosity; they possess the same faculties of imitation, attention, deliberation, choice, memory, imagination, the association of ideas, and reason … though in very different degrees.