"My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the mo… - Richard Dawkins

There is one particular property of living things, however, that I want to single out as explicable only by Darwinian selection. This property is the one that has been the recurring topic of this book: adaptive complexity.

Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early.

Don't ask God to cure cancer & world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space & fixing the weather for your barbecue.