Occupation: Ethologist Birth: March 26, 1941
Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science..
If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an education….
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops..
I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering,….
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine..
Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, bi….
Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general?.
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really h….
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood..
Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense..
I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing in conflict between agreeing ….
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task wo….
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of dis….
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance e….
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes..
People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand what that mean….
The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues.
A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is g….
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book..
Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that they will help us later. But ….
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-….