Occupation: Ethologist Birth: March 26, 1941
Have they discovered evolution yet?.
If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about ….
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority..
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, prec….
Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance..
Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have so….
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space….
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haun….
Thus the creationist's favourite question "What is the use of half an eye?" Actually, this is a lightweight question, a doddle to answer. Half an eye….
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale..
All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them..
If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil..
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? Th….
Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you t….
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think..
One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we're frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in Heaven, we don't want to go to He….
Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue..
Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning..
Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories..
The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be oth….
If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a g….