Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
People who believe in something for which there is not a shred of evidence act on that belief and, above all, impose their beliefs on others, they make me cross, and they make me especially cross when they impose their beliefs on defenceless children.