Notwithstanding the quasi-religious enthusiasms of ultra-Darwinists, their own understanding of theology is a combination of ignorance and derision, philosophically limp, drawing on cliches, and happily fuelled by the idiocies of the so-called scientific creationists.

Third, as has often been noted, the pronouncements of the ultra-Darwinists can shake with a religious fervour. Their texts ring with high-minded rhetoric and d…

It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might-strange thought-actually tell us things abou…

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.