Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about huma….

People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exact….

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for yo….

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false..

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution..

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate..

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe..

Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to ….

I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an impoverished view of the kind….

A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be b….

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gift….

Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about a….

It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can….

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

It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It's possible t….

When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that….

Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had no fossils at all….

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours..

I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes from. Now [….

Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am no more f….

For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos have no nervous ….