Clergyman's

Why is there anything at all? or as the question is famously put, Why is there something rather than nothing? Physics, especially quantum physics, shows that the correct answer to this question is: No reason, no reason at all.
- Alexander Rosenberg

the answer to the persistent question, What is the purpose of the universe? is quite simply: There is none.
- Alexander Rosenberg

the answer to the persistent question, What is the purpose of the universe? is quite simply: There is none.
- Alexander Rosenberg

the answer to the persistent question, What is the purpose of the universe? is quite simply: There is none.
- Alexander Rosenberg

the answer to the persistent question, What is the purpose of the universe? is quite simply: There is none.
- Alexander Rosenberg

Biology is usually a lot more fun than physics. It's a lot easier to understand, and there's sex.
- Alexander Rosenberg

Most advocates of the nonphysical self have been happy enough with the immortality payoff not to obsess about the incoherence it carries with it.
- Alexander Rosenberg

What we know of physical and biological science makes existence of God less probable than the existence of Santa Claus. And the parts of physics that rule out God are not themselves open to much doubt. There is no chance that they will be revised by anything yet to be discovered. To be sure, there will be revolutionary developments in science. Superstring theory may give way to quantum-loop gravity; exceptions to the genetic code may be discovered; some unique function of consciousness may be identified. But there are some things that won't happen. Purposes and designs will never have a role in physics and biology. Perpetual motion machines and other violations of the laws of thermodynamics won't arise, not even if there turns out to be such a thing as cold fusion.
- Alexander Rosenberg

When it comes to making life meaningful, what secular humanists hanker after is something they can't have and don't need. What they do need, if meaninglessness makes it impossible to get out of bed in the morning, is Prozac.
- Alexander Rosenberg

Scientism starts with the idea that the physical facts fix all the facts, including the biological ones. These in turn have to fix the human facts—the facts about us, our psychology, and our morality. After all, we are biological creatures, the result of a biological process that Darwin discovered but that the physical facts ordained. As we have just seen, the biological facts can't guarantee that our core morality is the right, true, or correct one. If the biological facts can't do it, then nothing can. No moral code is right, correct, true. That's nihilism. And we have to accept it.
- Alexander Rosenberg