Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.

There isn't [in new atheism]. Nothing that wasn't in Bertrand Russell or probably Robert Ingersoll. But I suppose it is more of a political effect, in that all these books happened to come out at the same time. I like to think that we have some influence.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.