125 quotes
One of the purposes of a university is to find the truth, but that can’t be done if free discussion is banned.
“The interest I have in believing in something is not a proof that the something exists.”
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
It doesn’t trivialize morality to argue that it is based on evolution and secular reason.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
The most important component of the incompatibility between science and religion is religion’s dependence on faith.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
But grifters gotta grift, so we’ll always have tarot, psychics, and other scammers.
If religion and science get along so well, why are so many scientists nonbelievers?
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
The truth is the truth, regardless of whether it fits your ideological biases.
I have argued that religion is to science as superstition is to reason; indeed, that is the very reason they are incompatible.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
After all, what new insights has religion produced in the last century?
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
Science’s results alone justify its usefulness, for it is, hands down, the single best way we’ve devised to understand the universe.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
As we know, wokeness prizes ideology and narrative over truth.
A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.
Why Evolution is True (2009)
“Blasphemy” and “heresy” are terms of religion, not science.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
I’m not a Marxist, but Marx got at least one thing right: for many, religion weakens the incentive to fix both personal and societal problems.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.
What might be considered a real contribution of science to religious belief is the empirical demonstration that some of those beliefs are wrong.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
When one has a religious experience, what is “true” is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
One can meet all the emotional requisites of a human—except for the assurance that you’ll find a life after death—without the superstitions of religion.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
The conflation of faith as “unevidenced belief” with its vernacular use as “confidence based on experience” is simply a word trick used to buttress religion.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
“Safety” and “harm” have become the new buzzwords to use when somebody does something you don’t like.