We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

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

I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.