I suspect that today if you asked people to justify their belief in God, the dominant reason would be scientific. Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the 'know-nothings', the 'know-alls', and the 'no-contests'.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most…

Molecular evidence suggests that our common ancestor with chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between five and seven million years ago, say half a million generation…

One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifical…

'If we are honest-and scientists have to be-we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a pr…

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.