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

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.

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

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.

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

Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?

A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no laws of physics were violated in bringing the universe into existence. The laws of physics themselves are shown to correspond to what one would expect if the universe appeared from nothing. There is something rather than nothing because something is more stable.