Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

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

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

Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

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