Clergyman's

If you are going to be scientistic, you will have to be comfortable with a certain amount of nihilism.
- Alexander Rosenberg

Biologists have a label for the neat tricks that enable living things to take care of the four Fs of survival—feeding, fighting, flight, and... reproducing. The label for these traits is ""adaptation.
- Alexander Rosenberg

Biologists have a label for the neat tricks that enable living things to take care of the four Fs of survival—feeding, fighting, flight, and... reproducing. The label for these traits is ""adaptation.
- Alexander Rosenberg

Biologists have a label for the neat tricks that enable living things to take care of the four Fs of survival—feeding, fighting, flight, and... reproducing. The label for these traits is ""adaptation.
- Alexander Rosenberg

We have to acknowledge that many questions we want the ""right"" answers to just don't have any. These are the questions about the morality of stem-cell research or abortion or affirmative action or gay marriage or our obligations to future generations. Many enlightened people, including many scientists, think that reasonable people can eventually find the right answers to such questions. Alas, it will turn out that all anyone can really find are the answers that they like.
- Alexander Rosenberg

Science can explain why we value things, but the same goes for values we reject as wrong. That's why scientific explanations of what we value cannot justify those values or serve as a basis to enforce them on others. Since science is the only possible source of justification, if it doesn't work to justify values, nothing does.
- Alexander Rosenberg

The parts of science that rule out theism are firmly fixed. Finally, it's not just probable that God doesn't exist. For scientism, it's as close to a sure thing as science can get.
- Alexander Rosenberg

Here is a list of some of the questions and their short answers The interesting thing is to recognize how totally unavoidable they are, provided you place your confidence in science to provide the answers
- Alexander Rosenberg

When it comes to understanding the future, history is bunk There is no place history is heading, except toward the maximum-entropy heat death of the universe.
- Alexander Rosenberg

Physics is by no means ""finished"". But the part of it that explains almost everything in the universe—including us—is finished, and much of it has been finished for a century or more. This includes the physics that we are going to need. Nothing at the unsettled frontiers of physics challenges the parts we're going to make use of. What's more, the physics we need is easy to understand, certainly far easier than quantum mechanics, general relativity, or string theory.
- Alexander Rosenberg