What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.

You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.

Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

While there's life, there is hope.

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe doesn’t have an end, it had a beginning in the Big Bang. One might ask what is before that but the answer is that there is nowhere before the Big Bang just as there is nowhere south of the South Pole.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.