Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.

Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

And pigs may fly. And we may be able to terraform and send surface populations to Mars. And Jesus may come next week anyway, so it doesn't matter one way or the other. All these crazy things run through people's minds.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.