Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today was bred from a wild, less edible ancestor. If artificial selection can work such profound changes in only ten or fifteen thousand years, what can natural selection do operating over billions of years? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life.

Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.