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

Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly you find yourself losing all of your natural skepticism and your scientific - really scientific - credibility. I'm sorry to be so blunt.

Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be nice to potential reciprocators. It would have been, Be nice to everybody, because everybody would have been included.