The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god – from Ra to Shiva – in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.
THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.
We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.
Scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
I’m quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.
I’m pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.
Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.
There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.
I think the world’s always a better place if people are filled with understanding.
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully ‘designed’ to have come into existence by chance.
You can’t statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you’re still left to explain the designer, who must be, if anything, an even more statistically improbable and elegant thing.
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.