Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.

What Francis [Collins] was just saying about Genesis was, of course, a little private quarrel between him and his Fundamentalist colleagues. It would be unseemly for me to enter in except to suggest that he'd save himself an awful lot of trouble if he just simply ceased to give them the time of day.

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed until molecular data was looked at. The closest relatives of whales are hippopotamuses, even closer than any other cloven-hoofed animals.

If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.