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….

It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process - tha….

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate..

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of….

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses..

Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the reader ….

What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world looking for a way to sustain ….

The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point of view, a deeply….

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things bec….

bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so ….

What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a sin….

People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance." And the answer is that….

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'..

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are….

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true..

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that..

It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions ….

I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much of….

I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's some….

Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in criticisms of rel….