I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live longer, better lives because of this dispassionate view. Sure, it commands awe and provides inspiration. Still, I would rather be operated on by a surgeon who sees me as an assemblage of atoms than one who lovingly tries to manipulate what he or she imagines are my vital energy fields.

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

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.

Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree.

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

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