I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything...
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most...
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb...
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is...
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need...
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science...
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to...
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of...
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born?...
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it...
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion but of course...
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all...
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be...
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not...
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the...
I love romantic poetry.
The Bible should be taught but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction...
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so...
Complex statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult...
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
God exists if only in the form of a meme with high survival value or...
The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator a God is one of...
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one....
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed...
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time anger at what we can't do fear or even disgust at growing old.
