How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

Science tells us what we have reason to believe. Not what we have a duty to believe. Not what experts, in their pontificating wisdom, instruct us to believe... No, science tells us what there is good reason to believe.

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of design and planning.

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.