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

Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.