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• Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept the burden of explaining all phenomena, real or imagined. If you think more than matter is required for this thing you call self-awareness, which you have not defined, then you have the burden of showing why.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Years, Atheism, Done

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• The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in scientific journals, where such quarrels as exist are over details, not the basic concept... Evolution has proved so useful as a paradigm for the origin and structure of life that it constitutes the foundation of the sciences of biology and medicine.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Medicine, Religion, Atheism

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it kick back. From the intensity and duration of thousands of those kicks over many years, we have formed a coherent theory of matter and forces, called the standard model, that currently agrees with all observations.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Science, Reality, Agreement

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require a cause. And even if they did, why would the Prime Mover need to be a supernatural anthropomorphic deity such as the Judeo - Christian God? Why could it not just as well be the material universe itself?

  Victor J. Stenger

  Christian, Religion, Doe

  Victor J. Stenger (1990). “Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses”

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• Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?

  Victor J. Stenger

  Brain, Religion, Church

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• Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Race, Understanding, Humanity

  Victor J. Stenger (1990). “Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses”

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• Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Data, Structure, Positive Atheism

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Exercise, Winning, Goal

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• Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Scary, Public Opinion, Pay

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Philosophical, Mystery, Mathematics

  Victor J. Stenger (2012). “God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion”, p.143, Prometheus Books

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• I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the scientifically unsound notions of the young-Earth creationists and other anti-evolutionists ... They are so far off the scale that their scientific claims need not be taken seriously. Their distortions and misrepresentations of the scientific facts are not consistent with their self-righteous claims of acting to protect all that is good and moral.

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  Taken, Self, Scary

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• People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Fear, People, Atheism

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• Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Mean, Religion, Doe

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