It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

What Francis [Collins] was just saying about Genesis was, of course, a little private quarrel between him and his Fundamentalist colleagues. It would be unseemly for me to enter in except to suggest that he'd save himself an awful lot of trouble if he just simply ceased to give them the time of day.

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.

There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. This cliché is true only in a crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write-words.