The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.

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.

We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been directed toward us so that we stand at the pinnacle of nature's ladder of progress. Rewind the tape of life and we want to believe that we (Homo Sapiens) would appear again and again. Would we? Probably not.

The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.

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

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