The world makes more sense once you realize that for the vast majority of people a question is nothing more than the painful absence of an answer: A question is a hole in the side of the intellect to be plugged with an answer — any answer — before more chaos can flood in.

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Wherever the seal of reality holds, no question exists. When the seal breaks, any answer-like material of the right size and shape nearest at hand will be jammed into the question to plug it up.

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It might be that we focus our “faith” (in the popular sense of “willfully believing”) on the scars of poorly plugged questions. Apologetics is the art of patching over the plugs and making them less visible.

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Skeptics run about under the waterline with drills, boring holes here and there to show themselves and everyone else that reality is just an artificial wall.

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Excessive patching, boring, re-patching results in a vessel that can only float in gentle weather.