Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.
You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'
Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.
Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would be used to settle it.
Kita akan segera mati, dan karena itulah kita beruntung. Banyak orang yang tidak akan mati karena mereka tidak akan pernah lahir.