Occupation: Biologist Birth: July 14, 1948
What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, ….
Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature..
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills ….
Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense..
Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be expl….
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution..
Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of natu….
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory..
Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played ….
We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.
The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of ….
Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution..
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable..
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than….
The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its cas….
The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science c….
The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of ….
Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different from the c….
We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology ….
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery..