Occupation: Scientist Birth: March 9, 1957
Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower.
Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thi….
The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion.
It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway..
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that de….
We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious..
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead..
religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor.
Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the….
Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations..
We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subje….
Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything, with no special exe….
Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion..
The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique ….
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned..
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity..
Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs..
Human beings are still fish..
Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same..
Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes straight to his main ….
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the wo….