Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide...
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
باید به کودک آموخت که چگونه بیندیشد، نه اینکه چه بیندیشد.
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferociousdefence? One might have supposed him amply capable of lookingafter himself.
When we die there are two things we can leave behind us: genes and memes. We were built as gene machines, created to pass on our genes. But that aspect of us will be forgotten in three generations. Yo...
We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Watson retorted: 'Well I don't think we're for anything.
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. [...] Somebody...
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 mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything b...
The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so...
The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
Pat Robertson would be harmless comedy, were he less typical of those who today hold power and influence in the United States.
Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.
It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the po...
If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and the...