I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic drift ….

We have this one life, let's enjoy it, let's live it to the full and don't get so worked up about don't identify yourself so passionately with this b….

The rule of thumb based into the brain by natural selection would not have been, Be nice to your kin and be nice to potential reciprocators. It would….

Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is abo….

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to bel….

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it..

I can't be sure God does not exist. On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six. That doe….

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other availab….

Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will fi….

I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's on….

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests..

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for ….

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales..

I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion is a terri….

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution..

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetim….

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism..

There is something so mysterious that it is almost like God. God is in the equations. God is in the fundamental constants. And that's fine. I mean, t….

If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 b….

If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in….