The Edge Annual Question 2008: What have you changed your mind about? Why? Lots of good stuff. It was Slashdot that bought this to my attention, and quoting Sam Harris :-
Mother Nature is not our friend.
So Sam finally agrees with Laozi. In Tao Te Ching, paragraph 5:-
天地不仁，以萬物為芻狗
(which I roughly translate to “Mother Nature is unkind, and treats everything as unimportant straw dogs”). More online translations of the text may be found here.