"This does not mean that scientists can't be religious. We can encompass irrational beliefs without regret and without…"

"If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink …"

"...what I want to happen to religion in the future is this: I want it to be like bowling. It's a hobby, something som…"

"Look at the bible as a pastiche, a collection of mutually and often internally inconsistent fragments slapped togethe…"

"People who say this cracker is literally and physically the body of their god and that I'm doing this great act of he…"

"Nothing must be held sacred. Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not your lord, you are not disciples of …"

"I have been told that my position won't win the creationist court cases. Do you think I care? I didn't become a scien…"

"Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests — put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, b…"

"If a scientist saw a cataclysm coming, say a meteor on collision course for earth in 2050, we wouldn’t be saying, “Ha…"

"We're confronted all the time with evolving viruses and bacteria. The Red Queen really rules the biological world, an…"