But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

Without gradualness...we are back to a miracle.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

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

I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.