The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How To Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

by Steven Novella

Our pattern recognition skills in general are quite robust,

Evolution works as an explanation for the complexity of life on earth and has vanquished the need to invoke magical creation. Biology works as an explanation for why living things are different from nonliving things, and we no longer have to invoke a life force. Neuroscience works as an explanation of mind and consciousness, and we no longer have to invoke a spirit to fill in the gaps. We will never have all the answers, never fill in all the gaps, but as long as these paradigms continue to flourish and succeed, scientists and the scientific community will follow them. And the deniers will be further and further marginalized to griping on the sideline, peevishly pointing at the shrinking gaps and desperately trying to prop up false anomalies.