Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?.

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what ….

[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in God's creative power in havi….

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix..

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret..

It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks lik….

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda..

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely ext….

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion..

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false..

It's about time we start criticizing faith..

Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist d….

Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening..

Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to..

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist..

If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Chr….

What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, i….

I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as sc….

Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a Marxist child or an Anarchist child or a Post-modernist child. Yet children are routinely labelled ….

If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are ….

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment..