If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless go….

What Francis [Collins] was just saying about Genesis was, of course, a little private quarrel between him and his Fundamentalist colleagues. It would….

Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of ….

Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it would turn out, perhaps ….

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too..

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining..

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive..

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special..

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so..

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential peop….

I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way ….

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity..

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition..

The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to be….

An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists abou….

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by….

The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic:….

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a col….

Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully..

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time..

There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over..