"Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered."
- Victor J. Stenger
"The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains..."
"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings."
"We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even...Observations in cosmology look just as they ca..."
"Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere...they follow from the very ..."
"The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place science perceives for humanity, as modern instruments probe the fart..."
"The most fundamental laws of physics are not restrictions on the behaviour of matter. Rather, they are restrictions on the way physicists may describe that behaviour."
"The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what we..."
"The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics."
"Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God."