Metaphors Are Fine If They Aid Understanding,

Why Did God Make Tigers So Good At Catching Prey, And At The Same Time Make Prey So Good At Getting Away From Tigers? You'd Think That If God Wanted One Thing Or The Other To Happen He'd Have Engineered It Rather Better. Maybe He Enjoyed The Spectator Sport?

I Really, Really Would Like To See Religion Go Away Altogether.

Science Is The Poetry Of Reality.

Being Dead Will Be No Different From Being Unborn -- I Shall Be Just As I Was In The Time Of William The Conqueror Or The Dinosaurs Or The Trilobites. There Is Nothing To Fear In That.

We're Going To Die, And That Makes Us The Lucky Ones.