When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

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.

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.

... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.