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

What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?

The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

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

We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.