Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion... →
Richard Dawkins
Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live... →
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering... →
If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are... →
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task... →
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is absolutely no... →
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