Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it..

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complicati….

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution ….

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion..

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work..

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me w….

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators..

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, ….

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fanta….

Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which woul….

Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot….

Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense….

And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on….

We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a p….

We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution ma….

The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' T….

I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is..

When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything m….

My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned..

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byprodu….

If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope to eventually understand it and embra….