Since humans are by nature tribal, the overall goal is to expand the concept of the tribe to include ALL members of the species, in a global free society.

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

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

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

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

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