Science is at war with religion. Creation 2009 starring Paul Bettany & Jennifer Connelly & Martha West & Freya Parks & Christopher Dunkin & Gene Goodman & Benedict Cumberbatch & Jeremy Northam & Toby Jones & Bill Paterson et al, director Jon Amiel
If I’m right, it changes everything. ibid.
You are at war with God, Charles. We both know it is a battle you cannot win. ibid.
The loss of religious faith is a slow and fragile process. ibid. letter to Emma
Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conservatives, and by accepting – and embracing – the theory of evolution, Christians and conservatives strengthen their religion, their politics, and science itself. The conflict between science and religion is senseless. It is based on fears and misunderstandings rather than on facts and moral wisdom. Michael Shermer, Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
There’s no evidence we need anything other than the laws of physics. 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God, Professor Lawrence Krauss
I do not believe in an anthropomorphic God. ibid. Robert Coleman Richardson
I can’t believe the special stories that have been made up ... Too provincial. ibid. Richard Feynman
It’s a subject for comedy. ibid. Professor Simon Blackburn
If it were true, then we’d have to abandon everything we believe about the causal universal. ibid. Professor Colin Blakemore
There is no need to invoke the material soul. ibid. Professor Steven Pinker
The word God – I’m not sure I really know what it means ... I’ve never seen much in the idea that the universe was designed. ibid. Professor Alan Guth
I try not to have faith. ibid. Professor Noam Chomsky
I have abandoned it. ibid. Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen
A lot of theology is grappling with phantoms ... They infer that no-one can ever understand it. ibid. Professor Peter Atkins
What concerns me is when belief is used to influence and corrupt education politics ... A form of madness. ibid. Professor Oliver Sacks
Even the simplest things are hard to understand – a hydrogen atom for instance. That makes me rather suspicious of anyone who claims to have a quick and easy answer to everything. ibid. Lord Martin Rees
I’m actually an agnostic on the grounds that I don’t know. ibid. Sir John Gurdon
I see no evidence whatever for any of the Christian dogmas. ibid. Sir Bertrand Russell
That theory doesn’t disprove God but it makes him unnecessary. ibid. Professor Stephen Hawking
Irrational thinking of any kind is very dangerous. ibid. Riccardo Giacconi
We have no reason to believe in it now. ibid. Professor Ned Block
I don’t think a notion such as afterlife has any scientific basis. ibid. Gerard ’t Hooft
I realised the whole thing was pretty illogical. ibid. Professor Marcus du Sautoy
It sounds good so it makes a good funeral. ibid. James Watson
If God says something is right that isn’t right, God’s wrong. ibid. Professor Colin McGinn
I don’t believe in God. ibid. Professor Patrick Bateson
I always have to think too of a little boy sitting on the banks of a river in west Africa who has a worm boring through his eyeball turning him blind. ibid. David Attenborough
Through the scientific methods that keeps away all the irrationalities that seem to dominate human activities. ibid. Martinus Veltman
I was brought up in a culture when no-one is religious. ibid. Professor Pascal Boyer
I’m certainly not religious. ibid. Professor Partha Dasgupta
It’s a question of the rationality of belief. ibid. Professor A C Grayling
I don’t like religion. ibid. Ivar Giaever
We would all like to believe that there is a meaningful world beyond our own capacity to inject meaning into it ... We like there to be justice in the end. ibid. Professor John Serle
If you’re not comfortable with the unknown, it’s very difficult to be a scientist. ibid. Professor Brian Cox
Wishful thinking. ibid. Herbert Kroemer
The arguments for God’s existence don’t work ... This does not look like the kind of world empirically is created by a good and caring and powerful God. ibid. Professor Rebecca Goldstein
A person’s culture or the family in which he or she was raised has a real impact on the content of that experience. ibid. Professor Michael Tooley
Most science is atheistic. ibid. Sir Harry Kroto
I don’t believe the universe was designed by an intelligence. ibid. Leonard Susskind
It’s a very powerful route into trying to understand human psychology. ibid. Professor Quentin Skinner
That’s just the intelligence of its own mechanism. ibid. Theodore W Hansch
We can look for evidence of it. ibid. Professor Mark Balaguer
No. ibid. Richard Ernst
Whether God really intended to cast three quarters of human kind into outer darkness because they hadn’t heard of him. ibid. Professor Alan MacFarlane
Most places in the universe will kill life instantly. Instantly. People say, oh the forces of Nature are just right for life – excuse me! ibid. Professor Neil deGrasse Tyson
I certainly have no idea what God might be. ibid. Douglas Osheroff
We don’t need to bring in God. ibid. Professor Hubert Dreyfus
I’ve always had a sceptical streak. ibid. Lord Colin Renfrew
What is faith? It is belief in the absence of evidence ... Believing when there is no compelling evidence is a mistake. ibid. Professor Carl Sagan
A monstrous doctrine to believe that God would create a world in which say a two year old child would die a slow and lingering death from hunger and thirst. ibid. Professor Peter Singer
Eventually a lot more will be understood. ibid. Rudolph Marcus
What you see is what you get. ibid. Professor Robert Foley
God has been designed to be beyond the verification process of Science. ibid. Professor Daniel C Dennett
Science ... is corrosive of religious belief. And it’s a good thing too. ibid. Steven Weinberg
In heaven all the interesting people are missing. ibid. Friedrich Nietzsche
The ancient texts ... don’t do justice to what we know about the universe now. Another 50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God, Frank Wilczek
The divine spark – which we scientists don’t believe in. ibid. V S Ramachandran, BBC Newsnight
What does God mean? ibid. Professor Bruce C Murray
An essentially human product. ibid. Sir Raymond Firth
There’s nothing that science is teaching us how we are that supports different religious fables about what we’re supposed to be. ibid. Professor Alva Noe
There were all these books about apparent contradictions in the Bible. ibid. Professor Alan Dundes
There’s no such thing as spiritual apprehension. ibid. Professor Massimo Pigliucci
God or any other supernatural agent doesn’t have what it takes to act upon physical things. ibid. Professor Bede Rundle
Science and superstition – you can never reconcile them. ibid. Professor Richard Friend
Whose soul is it and what good is it? ibid. Professor George Lakoff
All the religions are in conflict with one another. ibid. Sir John Sulston
We don’t need a lawgiver. ibid. Professor Shelley Kagan
I’ve never had any feeling for the intelligent designer approach. ibid. Roy J Glauber
I’m against religion when it interferes with the lives of other people. ibid. Professor Lewis Wolpert