I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise genetic basis to faith. But there is a genetic basis to a psychological predisposition that manifests itself as faith and religion under the right conditions.

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?