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

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

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

The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.