Science has taken away our religion.

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.

If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect they might be, then it is likely there will be many alien abduction narratives flying around, as, indeed, there are. Of course, this is not proof they are not true, but it does provide a persuasive context for a simple psychosocial explanation. Hypnotism is a technique that triggers a mass storytelling project in which all the stories are linked.

Science has taken away our religion.

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.