Occupation: Professor Birth: December 30, 1949
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….
If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific..
Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close..
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….
Science has only two things to contribute to religion: an analysis of the evolutionary, cultural, and psychological basis for believing things that a….
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….
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….
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….
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 ….
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice..
Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe..
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….
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 ….
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….
Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it..
We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix..
If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”..
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….
Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning..
Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go..