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You Couldn't Be Here If Stars Hadn't Exploded, Because The Elements - The Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Iron, All The Things That Matter For Evolution - Weren't Created At The Beginning Of Time. They Were Created In The Nuclear Furnaces Of Stars, And The Only Way They Could Get Into Your Body Is If The Stars Were Kind Enough To Explode. So, Forget Jesus. The Stars Died So That You Could Be Here Today.

Now, Almost One Hundred Years Later, It Is Difficult To Fully Appreciate How Much Our Picture Of The Universe Has Changed In The Span Of A Single Human Lifetime. As Far As The Scientific Community In 1917 Was Concerned, The Universe Was Static And Eternal, And Consisted Of A One Single Galaxy, Our Milky Way, Surrounded By Vast, Infinite, Dark, And Empty Space. This Is, After All, What You Would Guess By Looking Up At The Night Sky With Your Eyes, Or With A Small Telescope, And At The Time There Was Little Reason To Suspect Otherwise.

Keeping Religion Immune From Criticism Is Both Unwarranted And Dangerous.

The Fact Is That People Would Rather Cling When They're Afraid Of Something To A Priori Beliefs Than Rather Open Their Minds About It.

Teaching And Writing, To Me, Is Really Just Seduction; You Go To Where People Are And You Find Something That They're Interested In And You Try And Use That To Convince Them That They Should Be Interested In What You Have To Say.