Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.

If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand what that means. It is also only a theory that the world goes round the Sun - it's just a theory for which there is an immense amount of evidence. There are many scientific theories that are in doubt. Even within evolution, there is some room for controversy. But that we are cousins of apes and jackals and starfish, let's say, that is a fact in the ordinary sense of the word.

If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.

I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low.