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

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.

In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and no one can predict with certainty what may change in the future. The prospect that evolution by natural selection, at least as a broad mechanism, will be overthrown in the future is about as likely as the prospect of finding out some day that the Earth is really flat. Unfortunately, those who regard these scientific facts as a threat to faith have chosen to distort and misrepresent them to the public.

When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they're supported by science, then scientists at least have to speak up and say, You re welcome to your delusions, but don't say that they're supported by science.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

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.

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