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For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

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Michael Shermer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 8
Historian Of Science
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Psychologist
Sport Cyclist
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Glendale
California
USA
Michael Brant Shermer
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We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.
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Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.
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Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
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Since humans are by nature tribal, the overall goal is to expand the concept of the tribe to include ALL members of the species, in a global free society.
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Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
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Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)
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The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.
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Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.
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In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.
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Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
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There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.
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Skepticism is not a position skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.
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No such individual would find the Golden Rule surprising in any way because at its base lies the foundation of most human interactions and exchanges and it can be found in countless texts throughout recorded history and from around the world - a testimony to its universality.
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I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.
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We do not just blindly concede control to authorities instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.
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Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural.
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People who espouse Intelligent Design believe nature is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-God. Similarly, liberals believe the economy is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-government.
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Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
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I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.
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Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.
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