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Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Michael Shermer

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Michael Shermer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 8
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Glendale
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Michael Brant Shermer
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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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There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.
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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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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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Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
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Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
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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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We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.
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Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
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In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.
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In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.
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I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.
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Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.
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Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
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Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.
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My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait that is, a human universal.
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Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.
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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
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In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.
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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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