I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

Thomas Jefferson basically secularized Jesus.

Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.

I don't need my name anywhere.

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth formed, but that's only because modern telescopes empower us to see other stars and planets freshly hatched within gas clouds across the galaxy. As for the origin of life itself, the transition from inanimate molecules to what any of us would call life remains one of the great frontiers of biology.