If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.

With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.

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

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope to eventually understand it and embrace it within the natural. As ever when we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful.

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.