By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else.

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?

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.