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Do you believe in Ghosts? Maybe satan, or the One-Creator?  How about UFOs and aliens?  Maybe you believe that the government is tapping your phone, and controlling your mind.  “There’s a lightpost ahead, the next stop… the twilight zone.”

 What is it that makes us want to believe things that really don’t make sense to believe?  Thank goodness for websites like SNOPES and the mythbusters for putting those urban legends to task.  We want to believe in things.  Some things that we believe in, makes our lives easier by having faith, such as religion, yet, why do we take some many other things on face value?  We believe whatever we’re told by our government, our authoritarians, and our media outlets.

Where is the skepticism?

I see that there is no shortage of skepticism when it comes to these things:

• Evolution


• Landing on the Moon


• Global Warming see: http://www.radicalbright.com/wp1/wp-trackback.php?p=134


• The Earth is round


• The Earth revolves around the Sun

I believe that a good amount of skepticism is important, it ensures debate, and accuracy; but when we fail to acknowledge real science and rely on psuedo-science, we fail our own conscious and ensure that we will never know the truth.  I am convinced that when your belief system supercedes your ability to understand science, then you can neither be a true skeptic or conspiracy believer.