- There is a God.
- There is no such thing as man-made climate change.
- Homeopathy works.
He knows these things to be untrue because there is no evidence for them.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Armies of hedgehogs
In our time, in this day & age, a skeptic is usually one who rejects at least one of the following assertions:
A skeptic is also one who has to proclaim loudly upon his beliefs & to demonstrate to the rest of us that what the believers believe to be true is just not.
Hedgehog armies, lined up to face down other hedgehogs.
They know only one big thing: when under attack roll youself into a ball & stick your prickles out.
They need to watch out for the foxes whose wider wilier experience can find ways of penetrating these defences. Or even, so we have been told in recent weeks, the badger.
