It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?

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.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.

I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy satirical novels that take a wry, humorous, ironic look at modern life.

If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.