Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.