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.

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

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

Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

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.