What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant….

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to o….

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status..

By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!.

Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to being herded..

The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large number of universes. The vast majority will n….

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side..

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives..

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme..

[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a reductionist will sound, in ….

An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot ….

I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic..

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other..

What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot by postulating something….

The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo word car….

There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, ….

If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't….

Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane ….

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil..

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making r….

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent..