Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it is possible to go from a single cell to a complicated human...
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
Always devise your rules as if you didn’t know whether you were going be at the top or the bottom of the pecking order.
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
Wild animals almost never die of old age: starvation, disease, or predators catch up with them long before they become really senile. Until recently this was true of man too. Most animals die in child...
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe...
Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonethe...
Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact...That didn't have to be true. It is not self-evidently,...
As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, ‘Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil thi...
We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmer to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. Though I have known it for years, I...
هرقدر هم که عمرمان کوتاه باشد، اگر ثانیهای از آن را هدر دهیم یا صرف گلایه از این کنیم که زندگی عبث و بیحاصل است یا اگر (مانند کودکان) بگوییم که زندگی خستهکننده است، دشنام درشتی به تریلیونها نفری د...
As Einstein said, 'If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. ' Michael Shermer, In The Science of Good and Evil, calls it a debate stop...