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.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

The argument from design stands or falls on whether it can be demonstrated that some aspect of the universe such as its origin or biological life could not have come about naturally. The burden of proof is ... on the supernaturalist to demonstrate that something from outside nature must be introduced to explain the data.

Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge that we can identify many places where there should be evidence, but there is not. The absence of that evidence allows us to rule out the existence of this God beyond a reasonable doubt.

Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.