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

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

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.

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

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.

While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do not know the exact nature of every component of the universe, the basic principles of physics seem to apply out to the farthest horizon visible to us today.

Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept the burden of explaining all phenomena, real or imagined. If you think more than matter is required for this thing you call self-awareness, which you have not defined, then you have the burden of showing why.