Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous.

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.

Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?

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

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.