Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr’s death will send them straight to heaven.
Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.
Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.
Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they’re not foolish enough to believe that it’s because of faith that they get good exam results.
Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it’s actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don’t know the Ten Commandments.
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don’t have to bother saying so.
Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
I’m sure Obama is an atheist, I’m sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.
Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.
It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don’t know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself. People say if we don’t believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?
What I can’t understand is why you can’t see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing – that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted by the thought that there is something offensive about their very existence. Clones are simply identical twins.
The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ’s followers seem to disagree.