You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely..

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe..

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed..

With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig..

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it..

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure i….

Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have recog….

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religi….

The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swa….

In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they sha….

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge..

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides..

As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a teapot in orbrit around the….

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution..

If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them..

My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about..

I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, A….

I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes from. Now [….

St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. I….

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though..

Suppose that there's a gene that makes you gay if you were bottle-fed but that has some completely different effect if you were breast-fed. So in the….