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.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.

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

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are ‘valid,’ let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.