A challenge to atheism.

Unbelievers think that skepticism is their special virtue, the key virtue believers lack. Bolstered by bestselling authors, they see the skeptical and scientific mind as muscular thinking, which the believer has failed to develop. He could bulk up if he wished to, by thinking like a scientist, and wind up at the "agnosticism" of a Dawkins or the atheism of a Dennett-but that is just what he doesn't want, so at every threat to his commitments he shuns science. That story is almost exactly the opposite of the truth.