Any bit of nonsense can be computerized—astrology, biorhythms, the I Ching—but that doesn’t make the nonsense any more valid. - John Allen Paulos

Claiming that a holy book’s claims are undeniable because the book itself claims them to be is convincing only to the convinced.

There’s always enough random success to justify almost anything to someone who wants to believe.

Disproving a claim that something exists is often quite difficult, and this difficulty is often mistaken for evidence that the claim is true...Presented as I am periodically with these and other fantastical claims, I sometimes feel a little like a formally dressed teetotaler at a drunken orgy for reiterating that not being able to conclusively refute the claims does not constitute evidence for them.