Because A Truly Skeptical Position Would Be

I'm Talking About Science On The Leading Edge, Where It's Not Clear Which Way Things Are Going Be Cause We Don't Know, And I'm Dealing With Areas Which We Don't Know About.

In Practice, The Goal Of Skepticism Is Not The Discovery Of Truth, But The Exposure Of Other People's Errors. It Plays A Useful Role In Science, Religion, Scholarship, And Common Sense. But We Need To Remember That It Is A Weapon Serving Belief Or Self-interest; We Need To Be Skeptical Of Skeptics. The More Militant The Skeptic, The Stronger The Belief.

The Biggest Bursts Of Speciation That We Know About In The History Of The Earth Are Soon After Great Cataclysms, Like The Extinction Of The Dinosaurs, Which Create New Opportunities, And All Sorts Of New Forms Spring Up... So, Quite Often, The Reasons For Creativity Depend On Accidents Or Disasters That Prevent The Normal Habits Being Carried Out.

The Cumulative Nature Of The Evolutionary Process, The Fact That Memory Is Preserved, Means That Life Grows Not Just Through A Random Proliferation Of New Forms, But There's A Kind Of Cumulative Quality.

Not Every Good Idea Survives. Not Every New Form Of Art Is Repeated. Not Every New Potential Instinct Is Successful. Only The Successful Ones Get Repeated. By Natural Selection And Then Through Repetition They Become Probable, More Habitual.