Michael Ruse

Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and…

— Michael Ruse

“The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there.…

— Michael Ruse

In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of…

— Michael Ruse

“Fifth, I think that you [Daniel Dennett] and Richard are absolute disasters in the fight against intelligent design — we are losing…

— Michael Ruse

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought…

— Michael Ruse

Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion…

— Michael Ruse

...I really want to believe. I find the goodies offered by Christianity extremely attractive. But I am damned (again!) if I am…

— Michael Ruse

Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims…

— Michael Ruse

Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a…

— Michael Ruse

“I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with…

— Michael Ruse

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

— Michael Ruse

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

— Michael Ruse

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

— Michael Ruse