Evolution accepted by the world, according to survey results announced at World Conference of Science Journalists in London today.
A British Council survey into awareness of Charles Darwin and attitudes towards evolution has found that there is a broad international consensus of acceptance towards his theory of evolution.
The British Council, the UK’s international body for [...]

“They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds,” Sir David says, “I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of [...]

Fundamentally (pardon the pun), these are not advertisements. To be an ad a message has to proffer some kind of contract between a seller and a consumer.

Who’s the seller in this case, an improbable god? More to the point, what are those who read the message, as consumers, actually buying?

It’s almost like trying to sue [...]

“It doesn’t scare me,” he says, “in fact I rather pity these people, they react in a way that sounds defensive and actually really rather pathetic.”