However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. Go….

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic….

I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face. It is still in its infancy, still drfit….

The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the gree….

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next..

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion..

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent..

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist..

Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doe….

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status th….

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution..

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used..

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered..

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem..

We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so..

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain..

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument..

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history..

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once..

It could be any of a billion Gods. It could be God of the Martians or of the inhabitants of Alpha Centauri. The chance of its being a particular God,….

[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life..