Quotes from Victor J. Stenger

Infinity...is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.

The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.

Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere...they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.