To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.