What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

You cannot take death for apostasy seriously and be working for peace.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25)