Keeping Religion Immune From Criticism Is Both

I Cannot Stress Often Enough That What Science Is All About Is Not Proving Things To Be True But Proving Them To Be False.

The Ultimate Goal Of Physicists Is To Arrive At An Equation That Explains Everything And Could Fit On A T-shirt. That May Happen But The T-shirt Would Have To Be 10-dimensional.

If We Wish To Draw Philosophical Conclusions About Our Own Existence, Our Significance, And The Significance Of The Universe Itself, Our Conclusions Should Be Based On Empirical Knowledge. A Truly Open Mind Means Forcing Our Imaginations To Conform To The Evidence Of Reality, And Not Vice Versa, Whether Or Not We Like The Implications.

Celebrate Our Brief Moment In The Sun

Occam's Razor Suggests That, If Some Event Is Physically Plausible, We Don't Need Recourse To More Extraordinary Claims For Its Being. Surely The Requirement Of An All-powerful Deity Who Somehow Exists Outside Of Our Universe, Or Multiverse, While At The Same Time Governing What Goes On Inside It, Is One Such Claim. It Should Thus Be A Claim Of Last, Rather Than First, Resort.