Michael Shermer

"Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known."

"Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic."

"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion."

"But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths."

"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion."

"But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science."