Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins..

How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of dive….

I read in the paper today the list of the most popular boys' names in Britain. The first was Jack, the second was Mohammed. That makes me feel a litt….

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down t….

I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles. The argument I shall advance, surprising as it may seem coming from the aut….

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked..

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true..

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good….

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living re….

A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously,….

I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Ky….

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but bl….

So Occam's razor - Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward - leads me more to believe in God than in the….

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged..

Steve Grand is the creator of what I think is the nearest approach to artificial life so far, and his first book, Creation: Life and How to Make It, ….

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel agains….

I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for working on the Sabbath or sw….

No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehoo….

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s….

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed w….

People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this is….