DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.

The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.