I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves.

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

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

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

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

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