The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.