I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.