The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.

[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life.

I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true.

Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.