Does a belief in God undermine one's ability to be a skeptic? This is theÂquestion Hal Bidlack seeks to answer this week, as he movingly recounts his ownÂpersonal experiences as a man of faithâand as a skeptic and prominent member of theÂJames Randi Educational Foundation. Atheism is relatively common within the skeptics community, and so it is sometimes supposed (especially in press accounts) that skepticism implies atheism.ÂDr. Bidlack is one of those who disagrees.