The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.

God is not described in equations.

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.