It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

Society bends over backward to be accommodating to religious sensibilities but not to other kinds of sensibilities. If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists.

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

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

Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.