Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

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

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the reader feels it in the marrow of his bones. To do the latter, it sometimes isn't enough to lay the evidence before the reader in a dispassionate way. You have to become an advocate and use the tricks of the advocate's trade.