“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

“But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it.”

“We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and w...”

“It is the effects on the world of successful active germ-line replicators that we see as adaptations.”

“Returning, for clarification, to DNA as our archetypal replicator, its consequences on the world are of two important types. Firstly, it makes copies of itself, making use of the cellular ap...”