Religious Faith Depends On A Host Of

One, I Am Skeptical Of The Effectiveness Of Nutritional Supplements.

Accepting Evolution Does Not Force Us To Jettison Our Morals And Ethics, And Rejecting Evolution Does Not Ensure Their Constancy.

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.

The Reason Is That In A Group, Individual Errors On Either Side Of The True Figure Cancel Each Other Out.

... In A Free Society, Skeptics Are The Watchdogs Against Irrationalism - The Consumer Advocates Of Ideas. Debunking Is Not Simply The Divestment Of Bunk; Its Utility Is In Offering A Better Alternative, Along With A Lesson On How Thinking Goes Wrong.