I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind..

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is ….

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can ….

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this se….

It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand th….

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it..

Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as this clear spiri….

Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expe….

When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I thought were cogent arguments….

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind.

Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and a….

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with i….

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents..

The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me..

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent tha….

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA..

If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemni….

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there ar….

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning..

[Richard Leakey is] a robust hero of a man, who actually lives up to the cliché, “a big man in every sense of the word.” Like other big men he is lov….

The Universe does not owe us meaning..