Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration.

The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place.

If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.