Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.