Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils. They resemble the earliest life forms and suggest that life started under the Ground. The bible talks of Eden as a sunny parkland with white fluffy clouds, but it probably ascended from the region that we now associate with Hell.

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?