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.
Victor J. StengerThe 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.
Victor J. StengerFifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.
Victor J. StengerJust because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.
Victor J. StengerSaying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago
Victor J. Stenger