The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions.

If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested in.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

In the beginning was simplicity.

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.