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

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.

It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.