Victor J. Stenger

Who is Victor J. Stenger?

Victor John Stenger is an American particle physicist, philosopher, author, and religious skeptic.

Stenger is frequently associated with New Atheism and also writes popular science books. As of July 2013, he has published twelve books for general audiences on physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, philosophy, religion, atheism, and pseudoscience, the latest of which include God the Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist, published in 2007, The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason, The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: How the Universe is Not Designed for Humanity, God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion, God and the Atom: From Democritus to the Higgs Boson.

He popularized the phrase "Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings". Victor J. Stenger was born and raised in a working-class neighborhood of Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was a Lithuanian immigrant and his mother was the daughter of Hungarian immigrants. He attended public schools and received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.