[the Writers Of The Holy Books] Did

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

Science Is Only Truly Consistent With An Atheistic Worldview With Regards To The Claimed Miracles Of The Gods Of Judaism, Christianity And Islam. Moreover, The True Believers In Each Of These Faiths Are Atheists Regarding The Specific Sacred Tenets Of All Other Faiths. Christianity Rejects The Proposition That The Quran Contains The Infallible Words Of The Creator Of The Universe. Muslims And Jews Reject The Divinity Of Jesus.

Empirical Explorations Ultimately Change Our Understanding Of Which Questions Are Important And Fruitful And Which Are Not.

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.