Quotes About Debate

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God.

Rick Santorum said this week that his 12-year-old could out-reason me about God. Look, I am not about to debate a home-schooled 12-year-old. I have enough trouble with Sarah Palin.

It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

Science makes God unnecessary.

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.

Moses: God or crowd control?!?

I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in.

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive.