Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.

Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are ‘valid,’ let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.