Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of that. That's actually very valuable.

The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope

Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that they constitute a (meaningless) pattern when seen from a certain (not particularly special) place in the galaxy (here).

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.