Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

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.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.