If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.

There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in.