Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the children as the grievous mental harm in bringing up the child Catholic in the first place.
All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.
The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children.
Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.
I’ve never heard of William Craig. A debate with him might look good on his resume, but it wouldn’t look good on mine!
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden.
Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.
Have they discovered evolution yet?
This person should have been aborted years ago.
The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.
I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction...
Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.