We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.
We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.