The Reason Is That In A Group,

We Want To Be Special. We Want Our Place In The Cosmos To Be Central. We Want Evolution-even Godless Evolution-to Have Been Directed Toward Us So That We Stand At The Pinnacle Of Nature's Ladder Of Progress. Rewind The Tape Of Life And We Want To Believe That We (homo Sapiens) Would Appear Again And Again. Would We? Probably Not.

I’m A Skeptic Not Because I Do Not Want To Believe, But Because I Want To Know.

There Is A Significant Difference Between Having No Belief In A God And Believing There Is No God.

Science Is A Set Of Methods Designed To Describe And Interpret Observed Or Inferred Phenomenon, Past Or Present, And Aimed At Building A Testable Body Of Knowledge Open To Rejection Or Confirmation.

Skepticism Is Not A Position; Skepticism Is An Approach To Claims, In The Same Way That Science Is Not A Subject But A Method.