Do you remember the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears? Goldilocks, a curious girl, enters a house belonging to three bears while they are away and tries their porridge, chairs, and beds. She finds Papa and Mama Bear’s items too extreme, too hot, too hard, or too big. But Baby Bear’s porridge, chair, and bed are “just right.” The Earth’s position is “Just right” in many ways: it lies in the Goldilocks zone (aka the habitable zone). The observable universe spans roughly 9

Neil deGrasse Tyson once stated that, “If your concept of a creator is someone who is all-powerful and all-good... and I look at disasters that afflict Earth and life on Earth—volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, disease, pestilence, umm, congenital birth defects—we look at this list of ways that life is made miserable on Earth by natural causes, and I just ask, ‘How do you deal with that?... If there is a God, God is either not all-powerful or not all-good.’” Dr.

Nowadays, discrimination, cutting in line at the store, or identifying someone by the wrong gender is enough to send some people into a righteous rage. These are all social taboos of the current times. The word taboo originates from the Tongan term "tabu," meaning "sacred" or "forbidden," and was popularized in the 18th century to refer to restricted behaviors. Taboos are now seen as social or cultural prohibitions within a particular group or society. While something like cu

Living in the world in the twenty-first century can be fascinating, yet confusing. There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us, making it difficult to navigate what is true and what is not. One of the CEOs of Google, Eric Schmidt, once said, “The internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.” [1] I believe this to be true partly because the world contains many

The famous atheist Richard Dawkins once said, "The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference." Dr. Dawkins is quite right if everything we see around us developed by natural phenomena and chance. Their worldview is grounded in ‘naturalism’, meaning that they believe everything can be understood through science and empirical evidence. Yes, most