Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

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

We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.

There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.