There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages give or take a few mutations are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years; or, in other words, ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes. Each individual organism should be seen as a temporary vehicle, in which DNA messages spend a tiny fraction of their geological lifetimes.

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

People who believe in something for which there is not a shred of evidence act on that belief and, above all, impose their beliefs on others, they make me cross, and they make me especially cross when they impose their beliefs on defenceless children.