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….

Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have dubbed this ki….

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh ….

I'd like everybody to be secular. I suppose I have to say politically I would like religion to become gentler and nicer and to stop interfering with ….

Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to ….

If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the ….

What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will turn out to be one of the pa….

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because….

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries w….

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests.".

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position..

By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time..

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real….

The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heave….

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong..

There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think that does need a D….

Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't ….

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will..

There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all….

There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can only do exactly wh….

If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously offensive, it simply p….