Occupation: Ethologist Birth: March 26, 1941
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene..
American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest..
The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics..
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, ….
Without gradualness...we are back to a miracle..
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scie….
Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you believe. If s….
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to….
Offense is what people take when they can't take argument..
...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever they have ….
Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science a….
Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a….
The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in motion but a God who cares about human beings, becau….
Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun..
What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you ….
I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise genetic basis to faith. But there is a genetic….
Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?.
Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy..
Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been….
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill….
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then….