Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had no fossils at all, and still the evidence for evolution from other sources, such as molecular genetics and geographical distribution, would be overwhelmingly strong. On the other hand, evolution makes the strong prediction that if a single fossil turned up in the wrong geological stratum, the theory would be blown out of the water.

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

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

Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivasection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees! The only reason we can be comfortable with such a double standard is that the intermediates between humans and chimps are all dead.

I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.