Nobody in the scientific or medical world thinks that homosexuality is something that people choose. It's something we are. Now, I didn't choose to be heterosexual. I just woke up when I was about twelve years old and girls didn't look obnoxious to me any longer, but I didn't make a choice about the matter. I just responded to my own hormones.

Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if his mother is a child of Adam, she, too,is fallen so Jesus is not perfect.

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

I don't make that decision [what next book will be] until I've read enough to know that I've got something different to say and I know how to say it.