I’m A Skeptic Not Because

The Evening Was Very Professionally Organized, And Most Of The People Were Exceptionally Polite, Although It Did Make Me A Little Nervous When One Church Official Told Me After The Debate When A Big Crowd Of People Surrounded Me That He Had Assigned Me A Body Guard "just In Case." Just In Case What? I Thought Christians Were Suppose To Be Exceptionally Tolerant. Well, In Any Case, I Guess I Was Grateful For The Gesture, "just In Case."

Flawed As They May Be, Science And The Secular Enlightenment Values Expressed In Western Democracies Are Our Best Hope For Survival.

Absolute Morality Leads Logically To Absolute Intolerance.

As Enlightenment Philosophers And Scholars Consciously Adopted The Methods Of Science To Establish Such Abstract Concepts As Rights, Liberty, And Justice, Successive Generations Have Become Schooled In Thinking Of These Abstractions As Applied To Others In Matrices-like Mental Rotations.

Belief Is The Natural State Of Things. It Is The Default Option. We Just Believe. We Believe All Sorts Of Things. Belief Is Natural; Disbelief, Skepticism, Science, Is Not Natural.