Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.

I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.