Plato Wove Historical Fact Into Literary Myth.

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.

I Am An Atheist. There, I Said It. Are You Happy, All You Atheists Out There Who Have Remonstrated With Me For Adopting The Agnostic Moniker? If "atheist" Means Someone Who Does Not Believe In God, Then An Atheist Is What I Am. But I Detest All Such Labels. Call Me What You Like - Humanist, Secular Humanist, Agnostic, Nonbeliever, Nontheist, Freethinker, Heretic, Or Even Bright. I Prefer Skeptic.

But Because We Live In An Age Of Science, We Have A Preoccupation With Corroborating Our Myths.

Science Is The Best Tool Ever Devised For Understanding How The World Works.

Believing That The Rustle In The Grass Is A Dangerous Predator When It Is Only The Wind Does Not Cost Much, But Believing That A Dangerous Predator Is The Wind May Cost An Animal Its Life.