So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.

If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at all. What you're saying is you're taking the Bible's account as literally true in need of a scientific explanation rather than just people coming up with stuff to fulfill their religious missions.

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?

Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.