I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.