The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers.
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation...
Sözcükler bizim hizmetkârlarımızdır, efendilerimiz değil.
Perhaps, then, the words male and female have no general meaning.
Pantheists don’t believe in a supernatural God at all, but use the word God as a non-supernatural synonym for Nature, or for the Universe, or for the lawfulness that governs its workings. Deists diffe...
Many religious people find it hard to imagine how, without religion, one can be good, or would even want to be good.
If superior creatures from space ever visit earth, the first question they will ask, in order to assess the level of our civilization, is: ‘Have they discovered evolution yet?
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
Anyone can popularize science if he oversimplifies.
Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it!
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.
در دنیا آدمهایی هستند که ناامیدانه تلاش در نپذیرفتن تکامل داروینی دارند. به نظر میرسد آنها به سه گروه تقسیم میشوند، آنهایی که به دلایل مذهبی میخواهند تکامل دروغ باشد. آنهایی که دلیلی برای انکار تک...
Применение противозачаточных средств иногда критикуют как «противоестественное». Да, это так — очень противоестественное. Беда в том, что противоестественно и всеобщее благосостояние. Я думаю, что бол...
You can’t get away with saying, ‘If you try to stop me from insulting homosexuals it violates my freedom of prejudice.’ But you can get away with saying, ‘It violates my freedom of religion.’ What, wh...
We are in one galaxy called the Milky Way. When you look at the Milky Way’s next-door neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, your telescope is a time machine taking you back two and a half million years. Th...
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of...
Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: ‘When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
Os livros de física podem ser complicados, mas eles, assim como os carros e os computadores, são produtos de objetos biológicos - cérebros humanos. Os objetos e os fenômenos que um livro de física des...
If you need a geography lesson in order to know where Africa is – if, by age seventeen, you have somehow failed to imbibe such knowledge by osmosis or simple curiosity – you surely don’t have the sort...