Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I do…

- Michael Ruse

Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail a…

- Michael Ruse

Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged a…

- Michael Ruse

In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival jud…

- Michael Ruse

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They we…

- Michael Ruse

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

- Michael Ruse

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

- Michael Ruse

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

- Michael Ruse

...I really want to believe. I find the goodies offered by Christianity extremely attractive. But I am damned (again!) if I am going to sell my evolu…

- Michael Ruse