"With thoughtfulness—and, above all, with literacy—thoughts themselves become subjects of discussion in a way that the…"

"While the early deists were busy reconstructing Christianity, at the same time being very careful to avoid the accusa…"

"During the time when I was doing Monitor for the BBC I found that if I wanted to show the detail of a painting it suf…"

"Perhaps I was too dumb, or just too interested in cricket or in girls, to ask myself any questions about religion. If…"

"Paradoxically, some of the sources of disbelief are to be found amongst the arguments of believers. … Theologians oft…"

"Ever since the Reformation, there's a sense in which the road to atheism was paved not with science, but with religio…"

"Although he never admitted himself to be an atheist as such, he was clearly and unarguably the most vividly elegant a…"

"There were academics and theologians who spent hours calculating what they thought was the precise age of the Earth, …"

"There is one aspect of our own mentality for which it's difficult as yet to foresee what type of explanation would ev…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"