Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.

The less you think, the more you believe.

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.