We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

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

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.