I'm not too sure.....

Today is a day for those of you that have always doubted. Whatever you doubted whether religious, scientific or social you can revel in this day, International Skeptics Day. If you are prone to being skeptical then take heart, you aren't alone. There are the Skeptics Canada and Ontario Skeptics Society for Critical Inquiry as well as many others around the world to point your skeptical brain at. Dependent on your view of them skeptics are either narrow minded folk who take a counterpoint against all ideas and concept or they are the counterbalance to radical free thinking folk. Many skeptics believe that skepticism is the basis of the modern scientific method of:

I. The scientific method has four steps
1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.
2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.
3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.
4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.

I, for one, have always been skeptical of a few things so I'm not sure if I should be planning a celebration for this one or not.

Is there indeed life in the universe beyond the Earth, or not. I'd like to think there is otherwise I'm just really, really odd instead of out of place like Mork from Ork.

Why is it that car keys are deemed lost when you can't find them? I think that they wander off when you aren't looking and are fully aware of their location. This doesn't make them lost, but simply somewhere you haven't thought to look yet.

I don't believe for a minute, despite all the funky advertising, that a bigger, fancier car leads to a better life. I think it's a clever tactic in which cars are slowly infiltrating our world to live at the top of the food chain.

I can tell you that when I first heard of this day I was excited because I thought I was a good skeptic. After checking out some of the websites I can say that I am honestly an amateur. I'm terrified of going too far down the path of pure skeptic tough, as I firmly believe that once you begin down the path there is only one logical conclusion. You will begin to become skeptical of everything until you reach that pure and perfect peak of skepticism at which you point you begin to doubt your very existence and vanish in a cloud of doubt. I think my family might miss me so I'll blindly accept certain things just in case.

I am still going to celebrate by watching as many episodes of Mythbusters as I can find and calling local scientists, asking them to prove what they know. Whatever your take on the situation, whether joyous or skeptical may you all have a happy Skeptics Day. I for one, doubt that you can, but we'll see.