Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation.
Science is almost totally incompatible with religion. - Peter Atkins
Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.
- Peter Atkins
Truth is not arrived at by majority vote. - Peter Atkins
Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.
Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't be… - Peter Atkins
Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't be…
Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind. - Peter Atkins
Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it i… - Peter Atkins
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it i…
I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. - Peter Atkins
I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.
The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is onl… - Peter Atkins
The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is onl…
My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in… - Peter Atkins
My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in…
The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint. - Peter Atkins
The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.
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