Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

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

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.