Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.