The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

You are all stardust.

When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.

I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection.