Religion contributes nothing to human progress. It just gets in the way.

This is from "Why Evolution Is True" by Jerry Coyne:

Supernatural explanations always mean the end of inquiry: that's the way God wants it, end of story. Science, on the other hand, is never satisfied: our studies of the universe will continue until humans go extinct.

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