That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. ….

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar….

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture..

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith ….

We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were ….

Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly you find your….

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous..

St. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from that on….

Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, .. Evolution is a ….

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature..

I would challenge the statement that my scientific instincts are any less rigorous than [Richard Dawkins]. The difference is that my presumption of t….

If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!.

Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological ….

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation..

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity c….

It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the ….

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities..

The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg..

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, ….

To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the o….

It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself. People say if we don't believe god is wat….