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

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that