Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen….

The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols.….

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals,….

Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a liv….

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself..

Science tells us what we have reason to believe. Not what we have a duty to believe. Not what experts, in their pontificating wisdom, instruct us to ….

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment..

That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of ….

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from D….

It is important not to confuse race and religion..

I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I ca….

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness..

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neithe….

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content..

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem..

Human beings are just gene machines..

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand….

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless….

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant..

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window..

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world..