"Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if……" — Victor J. Stenger
"Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome... Note how science changed those beliefs when new data became available. Religions stick to the same ancient beliefs regardless of the data."
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28 Quotes by Victor J. Stenger
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People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.
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In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within…
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Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.
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Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are…
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Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden…
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The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.
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Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a…
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I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it…
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Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.
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