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..

When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that..

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist..

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish..

More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking to….

Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case, whe….

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?.

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was ….

Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic c….

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it..

If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution you might find a fairly substantial fraction….

Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evi….

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can use the produ….

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth..

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavaila….

There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism ..

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats….

There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge of the universe's a….