I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

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

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.

Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.

I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

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