Occupation: Philosopher Birth: June 21, 1940
Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I do….
In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They we….
Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail a….
We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it.
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged a….
Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an object….
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why..
...I really want to believe. I find the goodies offered by Christianity extremely attractive. But I am damned (again!) if I am going to sell my evolu….
In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival jud….
Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today..