The Earth Is Not 6,000 Or 10,000

We Are Special In The Sense That We Can Know Our Place In The Cosmos. We Can Know Our Place In Space. We Are At Least One Of The Cosmos's Ways Of Knowing Itself. That Fills Me With Reverence And Joy. Another Insight I Really Want People To Consider Is This: Everyone Has Gotten This Far. Everyone You Meet Has Made It This Far. Nobody Is Superior To Anyone Else From An Evolutionary Standpoint.

Our Goal In Science Is To Discover Universal Laws Of Nature. If One's Faith Requires One To Abandon Or Ignore Natural Laws, Well, That Person Is Going To Have Trouble Reconciling Religion And Science. Otherwise, There Is No Any Conflict.

The World's Going To Change Climatically. We Just Want To Control The Change. We Want To Have A High Quality Of Life For Billions Of People As We Pass Through This Era.

I Say To The Grownups, If You Want To Deny Evolution And Live In Your World, That's Completely Inconsistent With The World We Observe, That's Fine. But Don't Make Your Kids Do It. Because We Need Them. We Need Scientifically Literate Voters And Taxpayers For The Future. We Need Engineers That Can Build Stuff And Solve Problems.

The Most Serious Problem Facing Humankind Is Climate Change.