Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Assuming the universe came from nothing, it is empty to begin with... Only by the constant action of an agent outside the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Scientists have practical reasons for wishing that religion and science be kept separate. They can see nothing but trouble ... if they… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome...… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Scientific evidence for God's existence is being claimed today by theists, many of whom carry respectable scientific or philosophical credentials. He who… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter? — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for a meaning… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place science perceives… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
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