There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

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

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.

Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

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

There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or evolutionary psychology - relating to where we get our moral sense and why we value the idea of altruism, and locating both answers in behavioral adaptations for the preservation of our genes.