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.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

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

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.