'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.