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.

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

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

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

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

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

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.