Occupation: Ethologist Birth: March 26, 1941
I've never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn't look good on mine!.
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obv….
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have….
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos' impl….
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental pro….
There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding..
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact ….
It's known that stress gives rise to disease. It's also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos - pill….
People like to trace their ancestry..
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of….
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise..
But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of suppor….
It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled….
Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by differe….
The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist..
The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though sheer passage of time makes somet….
Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it..
We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe..
If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life. Its something we….
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twent….
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists..