In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice..

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”..

We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular ….

Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it..

We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we shoul….

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so muc….

The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute i….

It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly" ways of our forebears. Evo….

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of ….

Science has only two things to contribute to religion: an analysis of the evolutionary, cultural, and psychological basis for believing things that a….

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the….

The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and….

Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and br….

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding "truth": dogma, aut….

Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe..

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close..

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use rea….

Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go..

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific..

We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix..

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning..