That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse -- and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem

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