The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.

I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.

There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.