If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathe….

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence..

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whol….

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusio….

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind..

What is the purpose of the universe?" is a silly question..

I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about ….

Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is twofold: fi….

I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as ….

Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and r….

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the "milli….

Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us..

If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intellig….

There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wo….

If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events..

The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for th….

The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundu….

The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also success….

In Britain you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wro….

There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I….

Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a ….