I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face. It is still in its infancy, still drfiting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate which leaves the old gene panting far behind.

People like to trace their ancestry.

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.