Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.

If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.

I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic.

Have they discovered evolution yet?

What is the purpose of the universe?" is a silly question.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.