Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.

People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable.