Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do, to the benefit of us all.

As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.

If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.