With 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.

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

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

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

It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.

The argument from design stands or falls on whether it can be demonstrated that some aspect of the universe such as its origin or biological life could not have come about naturally. The burden of proof is ... on the supernaturalist to demonstrate that something from outside nature must be introduced to explain the data.