We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

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

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

Since humans are by nature tribal, the overall goal is to expand the concept of the tribe to include ALL members of the species, in a global free society.

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.

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

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.