"Empiricism provides the standard to which beliefs should answer. If we are capable of finding out what kind of world …"

"Faith is, I suppose, a rough synonym for belief, with an additional connotation that this belief is not grounded on a…"

"The main point I want to make in this chapter is that prior to the development of a convincing theory of evolution th…"

"I should mention the possibility that there are moral rather than empirical reasons that favor religious belief. It i…"

"Religious difference, arguably, remains the most effective basis for defending boundaries between them and us, and th…"

"One commonly held ideal of a possible good life is one spent in adoration of or service to the Supreme Being. It is h…"

"The main point, which would perhaps be unnecessary to labour if it were not so controversial and if it had not been d…"

"Whatever the unique features of humans may be, there are realms of behaviour for which the similarities between ourse…"

"The limits of a creature’s consciousness are closely related to its particular set of capacities. As I shall elaborat…"

"Darwin and his intellectual descendants have provided us with fundamental insight into the nature of the world we liv…"