Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place in the cosmos. Good art, good literature, good music - all of that is for that and science is a part of it.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.