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?

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the "millionaire Conservative party donors". I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?