Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

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

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

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

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

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.