When you get into the whole field of exploring probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms plants animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.