God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions..

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else..

If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is..

The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interch….

We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a….

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?.

With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any ….

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance..

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too..

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun..

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of org….

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13..

The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantit….

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new gener….

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things..

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse..

In other words Luke's story is historically impossible and internally inconsistent. He lied to fudge the fulfillment of Micah's prophesy and to provi….

I've seen [Lalla Ward] episodes of "Doctor Who." They're good, at least partly because the scripts were written by Douglas Adams..

Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but ou….

Public sharing is an important part of science..

You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to believe your parents when they tell you don'….