It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be explained.

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?

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.

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge of the universe's age or of how living organisms are related to each other.