Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

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

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

...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

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