A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.

Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely the requirement of an all-powerful deity who somehow exists outside of our universe, or multiverse, while at the same time governing what goes on inside it, is one such claim. It should thus be a claim of last, rather than first, resort.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

What science is all about is a process. It's like saying, "Well, is it important for people to know that World War II happened?" Well it's part of what makes us who we are. And so, there's basic bits of science we need to know.