I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

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.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations