reason Quotes

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.

We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.

The Bible was written by fallible human beings.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.

How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.