Through No Divine Design Or Cosmic Plan,

People Have A Hard Time Accepting Free-market Economics For The Same Reason They Have A Hard Time Accepting Evolution: It Is Counterintuitive. Life Looks Intelligently Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That There Must Be An Intelligent Designer--a God. Similarly, The Economy Looks Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That We Need A Designer--a Government. In Fact, Emergence And Complexity Theory Explains How The Principles Of Self-organization And Emergence Cause Complex Systems To Arise From Simple Systems Without A Top-down Designer.

It Is Sad That While Science Moves Ahead In Exciting New Areas Of Research, Fine-tuning Our Knowledge Of How Life Originated And Evolved, Creationists Remain Mired In Medieval Debates About Angels On The Head Of A Pin And Animals In The Belly Of An Ark.

In Comparison, Google Is Brilliant Because It Uses An Algorithm That Ranks Web Pages By The Number Of Links To Them, With Those Links Themselves Valued By The Number Of Links To Their Page Of Origin.

I’m A Skeptic Not Because I Do Not Want To Believe, But Because I Want To Know. How Can We Tell The Difference Between What We Would Like To Be True And What Is Actually True? The Answer Is Science.

Because Of The Complexity Of The Problem, Environmental Skepticism Was Once Tenable. No Longer. It Is Time To Flip From Skepticism To Activism.