Being A Skeptic Just Means

For Solving A Surprisingly Large And Varied Number Of Problems, Crowds Are Smarter Than Individuals.

Humans Evolved Brains That Are Pattern-recognition Machines, Adept At Detecting Signals That Enhance Or Threaten Survival Amid A Very Noisy World. ... But There Is Only One Surefire Method Of Proper Pattern Recognition, And That Is Science.

Perceiving The World As Well Designed And Thus The Product Of A Designer, And Even Seeing Divine Providence In The Daily Affairs Of Life, May Be The Product Of A Brain Adapted To Finding Patterns In Nature. (38)

The Question Itself [of Ufos] I Think Is Legitimate. It's Interesting, It's Fascinating. It's Mythic In Scale And One Of The Grand Questions. It's Like The God Question Or, You Know, The Meaning-of-life Question. It's One Of Those, On That Scale. So You'd Have To Be Made Of Wood Not To Be Interested And, You Know, Have They Come Here? Are They Up There?

A Hubble Space Telescope Photograph Of The Universe Evokes Far More Awe For Creation Than Light Streaming Through A Stained Glass Window In A Cathedral.