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

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.