Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate..

Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have recog….

What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world looking for a way to sustain ….

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate..

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special..

People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance." And the answer is that….

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by….

The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point of view, a deeply….

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses..

What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a sin….

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity..

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of….

I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much of….

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition..

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive..

The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic:….

If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an education….

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 ….

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth..

If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution you might find a fairly substantial fraction….

Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case, whe….