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Skepticism Is Not A Position; Skepticism Is An Approach To Claims, In The Same Way That Science Is Not A Subject But A Method.

We Want To Be Special. We Want Our Place In The Cosmos To Be Central. We Want Evolution-even Godless Evolution-to Have Been Directed Toward Us So That We Stand At The Pinnacle Of Nature's Ladder Of Progress. Rewind The Tape Of Life And We Want To Believe That We (homo Sapiens) Would Appear Again And Again. Would We? Probably Not.

Intelligent Design Is A Remarkably Uncreative Theory That Abandons The Search For Understanding At The Very Point Where It Is Most Needed. If Intelligent Design Is Really A Science, Then The Burden Is On Its Scientists To Discover The Mechanisms Used By The Intelligent Designer. (80)

The Fate Of The Paranormal Is To Become The Normal As Our Horizons Of Understanding Expand.

How Can We Find Spiritual Meaning In A Scientific Worldview? Spirituality Is A Way Of Being In The World, A Sense Of One’s Place In The Cosmos, A Relationship To That Which Extends Beyond Oneself. . . . Does Scientific Explanation Of The World Diminish Its Spiritual Beauty? I Think Not. Science And Spirituality Are Complementary, Not Conflicting; Additive, Not Detractive. Anything That Generates A Sense Of Awe May Be A Source Of Spirituality. Science Does This In Spades. (158-159)