Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.

I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.