It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).

There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine.

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.