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Michael Shermer

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Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.


— Michael Shermer


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Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.


— Michael Shermer


#history #human #human history #nonlinear #unpredictable

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.


— Michael Shermer


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No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.


— Michael Shermer


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One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.


— Michael Shermer


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Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.


— Michael Shermer


#historical #historical fact #into #literary #myth

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.


— Michael Shermer


#celestial #god #lab #leading #makes

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.


— Michael Shermer


#ago #atoms #body #born #brain

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.


— Michael Shermer


#barrier #general #position #principal

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.


— Michael Shermer


#design #divine #earth #ever #home






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Shermer is the author of several books that attempt to explain the ubiquity of irrational or poorly substantiated beliefs including UFOs Bigfoot and paranormal claims. Shermer states he was once a fundamentalist Christian but converted from a belief in God during his graduate studies and has described himself as an agnosticnontheistatheist and advocate for humanist philosophy as well as the science of morality. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55000 members.

Shermer also engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he promulgates the need for scientific skepticism. Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family (now ABC Family) television series Exploring the Unknown. Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8 1954) is an American science writer historian of science founder of The Skeptics Society and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.

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