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

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored.

In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.