It would be really worrying if, as a Darwinian, it was impossible to think of ways in which our behavior could be explained.

I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Human beings are just gene machines.

Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?