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.

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.

Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it kick back. From the intensity and duration of thousands of those kicks over many years, we have formed a coherent theory of matter and forces, called the standard model, that currently agrees with all observations.

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

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

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

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.