To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means we are selfish or we should be selfish.

I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

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

Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?