I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)

When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.