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.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical density for which the total energy of the universe was exactly zero at the beginning.

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.

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

The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.

Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it kick back. From the intensity and duration of thousands of those kicks over many years, we have formed a coherent theory of matter and forces, called the standard model, that currently agrees with all observations.