It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe.

As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a teapot in orbrit around the….

I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical literacy. Both those things, by….

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides..

Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have recog….

Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires….

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they a….

In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual fram….

[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests..

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the mos….

People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be….

St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. I….

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. S….

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religi….

[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evide….

If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them..

My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about..

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off..

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge..

The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swa….

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment..