Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children, a tendency to believe what you're told, a tendency to fear your own death, a tendency to wish to see your loved ones who have died, to wish to see them again, a wish to understand where you came from, where the world came from, all these psychological predispositions, under the right cultural conditions, tend to lead to people believing in things for which there is no evidence.

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a reductionist will sound, in some circles, a bit like admitting to eating babies. But, just as nobody actually eats babies, so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth being against.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.