To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists have opened the black boxes and seen what is inside, they know the Darwinian theory is just a story, not a scientific explanation.