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.

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.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

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

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

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.

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.