About Me
Thomas G. Vincent
I am a skeptic. I have been so since I was young. I view skepticism as a healthy trait. If I believe one thing about humans it is that we are at our best, not when we exhibit blind, dogmatic, and unquestioning faith, but instead when we hone and practice our critical thinking skills. I do not advance this theory because I think human reason is infallible. Quite the opposite. I believe man’s ability to reason is incredibly flawed. It is precisely because of the flaws in man’s reasoning ability that I find dogma so dangerous. Dogma does not exist in nature. It is a human construct and thus, by definition, flawed. It is one of the paradoxes of being human that when it comes to human endeavor there are no absolute truths; nothing is certain except doubt. As author and screenwriter William S. Goldman puts it:
“Nobody knows anything.”
