Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million gen….

An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good ex….

I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queern….

I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of ….

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the de….

We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagati….

I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed..

A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visi….

Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic creati….

... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession..

God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea)..

The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of….

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out..

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics..

I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen..

What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely th….

It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be explained..

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get yo….

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to be so finely t….

Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It'….