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

I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.

I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations