The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.