I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.

It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).

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.

By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time.

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.