We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot by postulating something just as improbable, magicking into existence the word God.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.

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

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.