I could easily believe that religion could enhance health and hence survival, and that therefore there could be indeed be literally Darwinian survival value, Darwinian selection in favor of religion. None of that of course bears at all upon the truth value of the claims made by religions.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.