Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There is no reason why we should not rebel in a large way too.

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise genetic basis to faith. But there is a genetic basis to a psychological predisposition that manifests itself as faith and religion under the right conditions.