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It is curious that those who claim such firm knowledge about God’s nature and works become silent when asked about God’s methods.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
It is time to stop seeing faith as a virtue, and to stop using the term “person of faith” as a compliment.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
Any “knowledge” incapable of being revised with advances in data and human thinking does not deserve the name of knowledge.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
The orderliness of nature—the so-called set of natural laws—is not an assumption but an observation.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
In the end, a theory that can’t be shown to be wrong can never be shown to be right.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
In other words, truth is simply what is: what exists in reality and can be verified by rational and independent observers.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
The methodological conflicts between science and religion cannot be brokered, for faith has no reliable way to find truth.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
Indeed, secular morality, which is not twisted by adherence to the supposed commands of a god, is superior to most “religious” morality.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
“What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.”
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
Living with uncertainty is hard for many people, and is one of the reasons why people prefer religious truths that are presented as absolute.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
You can find some religions without creationism, but you can’t find creationism without religion.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
Science has a huge advantage over “other ways of knowing”: built-in methods of self-correction.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
Religion has no warrant and no method for decreeing what is and what is not beyond science.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
“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)
If religion and science get along so well, why are so many scientists nonbelievers?
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
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.
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