The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic drift can't produce wings that are good at flying, or eyes that are good at seeing, or legs that are good at running. But random genetic drift probably is very important in driving evolution at the molecular genetic level.

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