It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

Steve Grand is the creator of what I think is the nearest approach to artificial life so far, and his first book, Creation: Life and How to Make It, is as interesting as you would expect. But he illuminates more than just the properties of life: his originality extends to matter itself and the very nature of reality. Not since David Deutsch's The Fabric of Reality have I encountered such a compelling invitation to think everything out afresh, from the bottom up.