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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.”

Book:Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe

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Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe

The book delves into the ongoing debate between scientific inquiry and religious beliefs, presenting arguments and evidence from both sides. It examines how modern scientific discoveries might shed light on the existence of a higher power and the purpose of the cosmos. more

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Victor J. Stenger

Victor J. Stenger was a renowned physicist known for his research in the philosophy of science and criticism of religion. His work encompasses physics, mathematics, and logic, particularly in the fields of quantum mechanics and cosmology. Stenger's writings aim to popularize scientific knowledge and challenge the rationality of religious beliefs. more

“To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for a meaning to their existence, they reject the possibility of no God. In their minds, only a purposeful universe based on God is possible and science can do nothing else but support thistruth.”

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Author:Victor J. Stenger

“The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?”

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Author:Charles Templeton

“In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

“There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.”