To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The less you think, the more you believe.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Writer is a miner

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

The UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play for.

The Internet is accelerating the speed of acceptance and social justice.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.