Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.