PARTICIPANT: [...] someone has your picture on a "Deist" web site with your endorsement of that movement. Is it true? Are you Deist or Atheist?

PINKER: I vaguely remember saying something encouraging to someone who called himself a deist -- the referent of "deism" (i.e., something that isn't "theism") that it would be hard to object to explicitly. But I certainly don't believe there is some mysterious godlike presence everywhere, if that is what "deism" is taken to be.

September 02, 2003 booktalk.org, chat transcript.

Q: You are an atheist, although less strident about it than your fellow evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins. Do you ever worry that by pitting Darwin vs. God, mano a mano, evolutionists are encouraging Creationism, since an awful lot of Americans would pick God if forced to choose?

A: My criticism of religion in "The Blank Slate" was defensive, meant to counter the argument that morality can only come from a belief in a soul that accepts God's purpose and is rewarded or punished in an afterlife. I think the evidence suggests that this doctrine is false both logically and factually. I don't make a point of criticizing religion in general. Some hard-headed biologists and evolutionary theorists believe that an abstract conception of a divine power is consistent with conventional Darwinism.

From an October 30, 2002 interview with Steve Sailer for UPI:

"I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew."
1999 Guardian interview.