The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and -- so the argument goes -- that's that.

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.