In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

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

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

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

I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.