I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.

To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries

I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so.