Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.

With pantheism...the deity is associated with the order of nature or the universe itself...when modern scientists such as Einstein and Stephen Hawking mention 'God' in their writing, this is what they seem to mean: that God is Nature.

Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove that the religious alternative is correct by default. When the sun was shown not to be the center of the universe, as Copernicus had proposed, the Earth was not moved back to that singular position in the cosmos. If Darwinian evolution is proved wrong, biologists will not develop a new theory based on the hypothesis that each species was created separately by God 6,000years ago.