We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures, great and small, to being the designer of the laws of nature, from which natural selection can unfold, to being just perhaps the chooser of the laws.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Anyone can make people laugh with a good joke but a truly funny person will make you laugh telling a bad one.

Tigers are not stuffed toys. Cute babies grow up to be unmanageable adults who are often relegated to cramped cages or dungeon-like basements or are simply abandoned.