Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."