Women, you need to understand something. Men are not as dumb as you think they are.

I'm never embarrassed to say, 'I don't know.'

You have enough people against you... be for yourself.

But when our faith causes us to check our brains at the door, we have fallen far from the God who gave us the capacity for reason.

For us to close our mind to scientific reasoning without using our best critical thinking is to refuse to use our God-given capacity for understanding.

If we don't look at the context, we can easily come to all sorts of conclusions that don't align with what the Bible is actually saying. The Bible is an ancient book written across centuries, and we must use the minds God gave us to examine these claims against the Bible to see if they are true and accurate in the way they are presented.

We need to step back and look at the more fundamental question: What was the author originally saying? We cannot simply read our own understandings into the meaning of a word or statement someone else wrote or said. And when we look at some often bizarre-sounding parts of the Bible, we have to try to discover who the original audience was and view the text through their lens, not ours. If we don't, the possibilities for confusion are endless.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

I can't ask god why until I'm willing to ask why not.

admitting we are not God—not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things—doesn't belittle us; it frees us.