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.
Victor J. StengerAny attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.
Victor J. StengerThe belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.
Victor J. StengerSaying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago
Victor J. StengerWith pantheism...the deity is associated with the order of nature or the universe itself...when modern scientists such as Einstein and Stephen Hawking mention 'God' in their writing, this is what they seem to mean: that God is Nature.
Victor J. StengerBut, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require a cause. And even if they did, why would the Prime Mover need to be a supernatural anthropomorphic deity such as the Judeo - Christian God? Why could it not just as well be the material universe itself?
Victor J. Stenger