Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural.

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

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.