Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

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

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.

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.

Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge that we can identify many places where there should be evidence, but there is not. The absence of that evidence allows us to rule out the existence of this God beyond a reasonable doubt.

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.

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