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.

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

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

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

In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and no one can predict with certainty what may change in the future. The prospect that evolution by natural selection, at least as a broad mechanism, will be overthrown in the future is about as likely as the prospect of finding out some day that the Earth is really flat. Unfortunately, those who regard these scientific facts as a threat to faith have chosen to distort and misrepresent them to the public.

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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.