... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

Faith is not the opposite of reason.

Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected to worry a tiger - even if a tiger can be said to worry about anything at all - and certainly cannot be expected to worry its genes.

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.