It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that..

Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance..

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to si….

The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages g….

The so-called sophisticated theologians, especially ones who are very nice, like Rowan Williams and Jonathan Sacks, you sometimes don't quite know wh….

We are a very, very unusual species..

In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that surv….

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence..

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children..

Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false morality that vanishes….

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the c….

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions..

I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means we….

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history o….

I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish to discuss ….

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly re….

People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep principles of phy….

The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected t….

There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because ….

Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché..

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does..