We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!

The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.