[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.

If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot by postulating something just as improbable, magicking into existence the word God.