Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

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

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.

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.

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